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THE EUCHARISTIC OFFERING: 
SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTIONS UPON 
THE OFFICE OF HOLY COMMUNION, 
TOGETHER WITH HELPS FOR THE 
CARRYING OUT OF THE SAME. 



INCLUDING 

KALENDAR FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF PERSONS AND 
EVENTS. A METHOD OF EUCHARISTEC PREPARA- 
TION, INTERCESSION AND THANKSpiVING. THE 
OFFICE ANALYZED, ANNOTATED^ AND ACCOMPANIED 
WITH DEVOTIONS ADAPTED TO ITS^ SEVERAL PARTS. 
AN ARRANGEMENT OF COLLECTS, EPISTLES, AND 
GOSPELS WHEREBY THE EUCHARISTIC THOUGHT 
PROPER FOR THE DAY IS MADE PLAIN. 



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f-r- BY 

G. H. S. WALPOLE, S.T.D. 

PROFESSOR OF DOGMATIC THEOLOGY, GEN, THEO. SEM., NEW YORK. 

WITH INTRODUCTION BY 

MORGAN DIX, S.T.D., D.C.L^ 

RECTOR OF TRINITY CHURCH, NEW 




CROTHERS & KORTH ^ / ^ 

246 Fourth Avenue 
1894 




Copyright, 1894^ by 



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Press of J. J. Little Sc Co. 
Astor Place, New York 



INTRODUCTION. 



It is of the great inercy and love of our LoRD, 
that men have been led to think more of late than 
they did about the place of the Eucharist in the 
system of revealed religion. . The time is not long- 
past when devout persons saw in Holv Commun- 
ion only a precious spiritual feast offered to faith. 
Now, thanks to a blessing on assiduous teaching, 
the eyes of the blind are opened, and the ears of the 
deaf unstopped. It is recognized that the rite of 
Sacritice did not come to an end with the Sacrifice 
of the Death of Christ, but that the spirit of Sacrifice, 
\vhich is the life of the Gospel, has its perpetual 
manifestation to the bodily eye. The Eucharist is 
the centre of organic and sacramental Christianity ; 
it is, first of all, a Memorial before GoD, the show- 
ing forth of the Death of Christ until He shall come 
again to judge both the quick and the dead. Jesus 
lives ; and He lives to make intercession for us ; 
the Oblation is offered continually above, while 



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here on earth it is represented, accompanied, and 
reahzed to His people. And so Eucharists have 
increased in number greatly, as the truth concern- 
ing them has spread ; to celebrate on the Lord's 
Day is becomiiig a rule in our parishes ; while the 
daily sacrifice is already established in not a few 
churches and chapels. 

Professor Walpole, in the Manual now intro- 
duced to our household of faith, has done us a 
timely service in giving us material for reflection 
and aids to it ; he casts an old lesson into a new 
form. He takes up the Eucharist as a subject of 
devout meditation ; the Eucharist in its full signifi- 
cance, as disclosed in Holy Scripture, the earliest 
liturgies, and the treatises and commentaries of an- 
cient authors. He assumes, at the outset, the per- 
manence of the rite of Sacrifice in the Church. He 
does more : he identifies, if one may so express it, 
the sacrifices of the old covenant and the new, and 
shows the correspondence between them ; the latter 
following the lines of the former ; the ritual of the 
Tabernacle and Temple living on in the solemn 
worship of Catholic Christendom. 

" The Lord's ^Supper is a Eucharist which we 



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offer through communion with the Lord." ' The 
first Celebration was a thanksgiving for the re- 
demption of the world."" "It was directly con- 
nected with the Passover, out of which it sprang ; 
a world-Eucharist was substituted for a national 
thanksgiving." ^ " It is our sacrifice of praise, 
wherein we make to God the threefold sacrifice of 
body, mind, and spirit."^ It is an instructive and 
afiecting parallel, calculated to deepen the awe and 
fear which invest those holy mysteries, and to 
make men careful how they approach. 

There is not an act of a Christian's conscious life 
but falls somewhere within the circle of conditions 
to a worthy reception of the heavenly gift ; no rela- 
tion of the soul to its Saviour, no part in the plan of 
our redemption, which is not brought to view as we 
assist at the Sacrifice and take and eat thereof. 
To use this Manual with intelligence must be to 
become more familiar with the first principles of 
the Gospel ; more will be seen than was suspected ; 
views will be enlarged, and the conviction strength- 
ened that One and the same GOD has been dealing 
with His people in one and the same way, from the 



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time when Melchizedek, the priest of the Most 
High God, brought forth bread and wine, down to 
the night of the departure out of Kgypt, and thence 
through the days when they offered continually 
those sacrihces whicii j)refigured the One made by 
Christ, to this present hour when His priests are 
still standing, and lifting up holy hands, and exe- 
cuting their office in His Name. 

Privileges invoUf^ duties. Xo sin is more delete- 
rious in its effects than that of abusing the spiritual 
gifts of God. And so the growing frequency of 
Eucharists and of the opportunities of receiving the 
Communion suggests a distinct danger — that of not 
discerning as we shouhl the scope of the Sacra- 
mental action, and the " Body of the Lord." It is a 
time to be thoughtful. It may be, that in former 
vears, when men and women communed rarelv, 
they did so with more careful preparation and in bet- 
ter mood than most of us do to-day. Perhaps there 
is greater need than there has been for some years, 
of care, reflection, and intellectual exercise on the 
solemn themes of religion ; at all events, they form 
a necessary part of the " preparation for the Altar," 
and for lack of such dressing of the soul " many are 



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weak and sickly among- us, and many sleep." Two 
things equally undermine the Christian character^ — 
a dry formalism and an unreasoning emotionalism. 
He whose religion is reduced to the observance of 
forms and ceremonies through which no spiritual 
force flows in upon his soul is but feeding on 
ashes ; while he whose spiritual life consists in 
pious enthusiasm unsustained by dogmatic faith 
may find himself adrift on seas of speculation, when 
the effect of the stimulus has passed off. The only 
remedy for dangers of this kind lies in knowledge 
of the principles of theology, so far at least as 
to enable each one to give an intelligible account 
of the faith that is in him, and to know on what 
basis it rests. Careful study of works like this 
which follows will leave their impress on mind and 
heart alike, and shield the readers from the risk 
incurred in following teachers who know neither 
what they say nor whereof they affirm. 

I deem it a g-reat and undeserved honor to have 
been invited to write this prefatory note, though 
there was no need of it, for the book explains itself,- 
and its contents amply justify its publication. The 
blessing of peace must be on those who study the 



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mysteries of grace ; he walks firmly and without 
fear who knows the path ; and only he can know it 
who has given due attention to its course and end. 
Not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, 
hut which the Holy Ghost teacheth, can the soul 
find rest ; for these are indeed to us as messages 
from another world, and these abide forever ; and 
by these shall all spirits of the faithful be enlight- 
ened and refreshed long after the prophecies of the 
mighty have failed, and the tongue of speculative 
opinion is silent, and the knowledge of the world- 
schools has vanished away. 

Morgan Dix. 

Trinitv Rectory, 
Nkw York, Advent, 1893. 



PREFACE. 



This little book is an endeavour to draw out, for 
those who find but little time for quiet thought and 
study, some of the deeper meanings which underlie 
the simple and touching language of our Commun- 
ion Office ; and more especially to set forth in a pop- 
ular form that prevailing characteristic of Sacrifice 
which marks it from the beginning to the close. 
There is probably no habit more ancient than that 
of sacrifice, no rite that has a better claim to be 
considered an integral part of the religion of nature, 
no institution that can boast the prescription of so 
many centuries in its favour.^ We ought to expect, 
then, to find it embodied in that act of worship 
which sums up and illustrates the Faith that meets 
and satisfies every religious aspiration of man. 
And our expectation is realized, for "the Eucharist 
has claimed a connection universally recognized 
with the vanished world of sacrificial usages, and 
like a potent magnet has attracted to itself ideas 
and associations which might have been regarded 

* Maclear, The Evidential Value of the Holy Eucharist," 
p. i8. 



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as extinct and obsolete. The names which it has 
received sufficiently attest this. Thus in a. d. 96 
we find it called 'Oblation;' in A. D. 107 it is 
styled ' Thank-offering ; ' a still later writer, A. D. 
150, calls it a 'Sacrifice ;' another, about the same 
date, calls it a ' Commemoration,' or ' Memorial ; ' 
while a later appellation, about A.D. 249, is ' Paschal 
Feast.'"' And yet in spite of this early, and, we 
may add, universal recognition of the doctrine of the 
Eucharistic Sacrifice, there are, it is to be feared, 
many amongst us to whom it is strange and unat- 
tractive. One who has excellent oj)portunities of 
observing English religious thought, not only recog- 
nizes the present need of popular teaching on this 
subject, but deplores the slow progress it is making. 
" It does not seem," writes Mr. Gore, " as if the 
apprehension of that great and vital doctrine was 
making way with the mass of devouter people in 
the same proportions as the doctrine of Communion, 
or even of the worship of Christ in tlie Eucharist.'""' 
And we doubt whether, in spite of the priceless 
heritage of our Liturgy secured to us by Bishop Sea- 
bury, the same might not be said with equal truth 
here. We wonder, indeed, whether in this respect 
we are as far advanced as our forefathers of a hun- 

1 Maclear, The Evidential Value of the Holy Eucharist,'" 
pp. 19, 48. 49. 

- " The Eucharistic Sacrifice," a sermon by Charles Gore. M.A. 



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dred and fifty years ago. It is surely significant of 
the appreciation which this truth then met with 
amongst the devout, that the " Hymns on the 
Lord's Supper," by John and Charles Wesley, 
most of which are saturated with the spirit of 
Sacrifice, and no less than forty-two devoted to the 
expression of this aspect of the Eucharist, should 
have gone through nine editions in John Wesley's 
lifetime. Whatever may be the causes for its slow 
progress or even decline from that time to this, it 
would seem to be the duty of all those who have, in 
any degree, realized its stimulating power, to do 
what they can to commend it to others. Much, 
indeed, has already been done by theological and 
devotional treatises dealing directly with the sub- 
ject and by manuals. Still there seemed to be room 
for yet another attempt to show how naturally our 
own service expresses the ancient and present — if 
we look at the whole field of the Catholic Church- 
widely prevailing thought of Sacrificial Worship. 
The author will feel amply rewarded for his labour 
if he has been permitted to give the smallest help 
toward the restoration of a truth, which, to use the 
words of the late Presbyterian divine. Dr. Milligan, 
" ought to go some way at least towards conciliat- 
ing widely divergent views with regard to the true 
purport of the Holy Sacrament of Communion," and 
vv^here accepted would make the Eucharist the 



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central rite of that worship of the Church on earth, 
which," he rightly says, "ought to be moulded on 
her worship in heaven."^ 

Before speaking of the plan, a word of explana- 
tion is necessary respecting the method selected 
in dividing the Office. As the book is intended 
for devotional purposes, it seemed best to adopt 
that which is at once most simple and natural to 
those using it. To the ordinary communicant, 
there are but two divisions — the first after the 
Prayer for the Church Militant, the second after 
the Sanctus. The interruption following the one, 
caused by the customary withdrawal of some of 
the congregation, and the solemn hush which suc- 
ceeds the uplifting strains of the other, so strike 
the senses and the imagination, that to substitute 
others, suggested by a comparison of our Office 
with the Gallican, Roman and Eastern Liturgies, 
would, it was thought, confuse the mind, always 
more impressed by usage than theory. It would 
not, however, have been easy, if this practical ob- 
jection had not existed, to have made divisions 
that would have been beyond the reach of criti- 
cism, as will be seen by comparing the Tables 
given in "The Divine Liturgy" by the Dean of 
Lichfield, and "The Liturgies and Offices of the 



1 Milligan. " The Resurrection of our Lord." pp. 275, 276. 



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Church " by Mr. Burbidge, both of which are differ- 
ently arranged. The truth would seem to be that 
whilst we know that Cranmer was anxious to make 
our present order in accord with primitive usage, 
we are still in the dark as to the principles which 
governed his mind in the sweeping alteration that 
was made in 1552, "a change so striking that it is 
not possible," writes Mr. Burbidge, "to compare 
together the two Prayer Books of 1549 and 1552."^ 

But whilst "the changes made cannot be exactly 
explained," it would seem probable, from the in- 
sertions of the Exhortations and the Prayer of 
Humble Access— both of which are introductory to 
the parts which follow — at the particular points at 
which they are respectively made, that those who 
framed our present Liturgy designed that the 
Prayer for the Church Militant and the Sanctus 
should sum up, as it were, the preceding devotions. 
The writer therefore adopted them as marking the 
divisions of the Service not only on practical 
grounds,, but as being, so far as he could see, the 
only indications of the intentions of those who drew 
up the Office. 

The placing of the Creed with the Offertory and 
Prayer for the Church Militant as part of the First 
Offering is not without some justification. " One of 



1 " Liturgies and Offices of the Church," pp. 172, 177, 184. 



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the patterns which in all probability helped to 
guide our Reformers in restoring the f^ucharist to 
its ancient character is the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy 
of Dionysius." ' In that old account of the Ser- 
vice of the Holy Communion, the Creed, which occu- 
pies the same position as it does in our Office, has a 
definite Eucharistic meaning, being there called the 
Catholic Hvmn of Praise or the Hierarchic Thanks- 
giving. That our Reformers had this aspect of the 
Creed's use in mind would seem to be suggested 
by the instruction in the rubric tliat it should be 
sung or said. 

Tlie plan of th-e Manual is briefly this : 

First, to set forth, with such justification as could 
be found, the Eucharistic interpretation of the office 
for the administration of the Holy Communion. 

Secondly, to supply such a method of preparation 
as may help the Communicant to be in hearty sym- 
pathy with its spirit of sacrifice. 

Thirdly, to assist the Communicant during the 
service, by suggesting both to the imagination and 
intellect, especially in places where attention is apt 
to flag, such thoughts as may give freshness and 
fulness to words that from their long familiarity 
sometimes fail to impress. 

Fourthly, by such additions as the Kalendar, the 



1 "Liturgies and Offices of the Church." pp. 172, 177, 184. 



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Intercessions, and the Speciai Intentions, to give a 
wider range to the purpose of the Holy Eucharist 
than is ordinarily apprehended among us. 

Fifthly, by marking off the parts of the office from 
one another, to suggest at once to the eye the main 
features of the Eucharistic idea which binds them 
all together. 

Lastly, to help those who desire to remain at a 
Second Celebration to use the Kyrie and Confession 
without unreality, and to exercise their priestly 
office of interceding for the world and the Church. 

The author desires to express his gratitude to the 
many, known or unknown, whose thoughts, prayers, 
and hymns have given the chief value to his work. 
In some places, he has been able to acknowledge his 
obligations ; in others, feeling that the constant in- 
sertion ofnam.es would be a source of distraction to 
the Communicant, he has felt obliged to omit them. 
His best thanks are also due to the Reverend Pro- 
fessor Cady, D.D., and others, who have assisted in 
the correction of proofs, and given many valuable 
suggestions. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Kalendar for the Commemoration of Persons and 

Events xix 

Table of Feasts, Fasts, and Days of Abstinence . . xlvi 
Table to regulate the service when two holy days 

coincide xlvii 

(tlje (Bmlmistit ©fimng. 

Chapter I. The Lord's Supper a Eucharist which 
we offer through Communion with 

the Lord i 

Chapter TI. Thank-Offering is the interpretation 
which the Church has given the 

Lord's Supper 9 

Chapter III. Outline of the Office 14 

Chapter IV. In the Outer Court 18 

Chapter V. In the Holy Place 25 

Chapter VI. In the Holy of Holies ..... 30 

^tieparatioit for i\t ®ticl^arbi 

How to prepare 43 

Instructions in Self-examination on the five questions 
proposed by the Catechism, together with De- 
votions 46 



The Order of the Administration of the Lord's Sup- 
per analyzed, annotated, and accompanied with 
devotions adapted to its several parts .... 73 



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Thanksgiving after Holy Communion 132 

Eucharistic Psalms 13^ 

Eucharistic Hymns I4( 

Additional Devotions 144 

Prayers expressing our Eucharistic Intention . . . 147 

^intercessions. 

P^or the Family 151 

For the Parish 153 

For the Diocese I5( 

For the Country 15S 

For the Church Catholic 160 

For the Church Invisible 162 

Pdps to l^ribalt Btbatxon, 

An Office of Spiritual Communion 164 

Instruction in Meditation 169 



Collects, fipistles, anb ©ospcls. 

An Arrangement of the same whereby the Eucha- 
ristic thought proper for the day is made plain . 171 



KALENDAR 

3 fiefieue tn i^t Commumon of ^axnis 

Ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the 
city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, 
and to an innumerable company of angels, to 
the general assembly and church of the first- 
born, which are written in heaven, .... and 
to the spirits of just men made perfect. 

— Heb. XII., 22, 23. 



Ye arc all one Tuan in Christ Jesus. — Gal. iii. 28. 

The Communion of Saints must be realized socially 
and personally ; socially by commemoration, per- 
sonally by meditation. 

" Our Kalendar rellects imperfectly the divine his- 
tory of the Church. The old dispensation finds no 
representative from among- the heroes of faith, 
lawgiver or prince or prophet, Enoch or Elijah, 
Moses or David, Samuel or Isaiah. The new dis- 
pensation finds no representative from among those 
who in Christ's name and by Christ's power brought 
modern life and thought into His service. The 
kingly type and the prophetic type, the type of the 
artist and of the poet and of the scholar, have been 
put aside. And yet we cannot afford to dispense 
with the widest teaching of consecrated lives." 

"Gifts, labors, thoughts of distinguishable ances- 
tors, go to swell our spiritual patrimony. It may 
have been by some conspicuous work which was 
nobly spread over a lifetime ; it may have been by 
some sweet trait which was just seen in a crisis of 
trial ; but here and there they have helped us, and 
if we are to enjoy the fulness of their service we 
must solemnly recall it. In doing this we arrogate 
to ourselves no authority of final judgment by grate- 
ful celebration. We recognize a blessing, and so 
far we acknowledge GOD's love in him by whose 
ministry it was shown to us." (Adapted from West- 
cott, " Historic Faith," note ix.) 



SUGGESTIONS FOR USING THE KALENDAR. 



1. Place within the small column of the Kalendar the 
names of the Saints and heroes of the Jewish or Christian 
Church who are not already mentioned, especially noting 
the illustrious of our own branch of Christ's Church, 
and in the larger space those departed or living who are 
connected with you by personal ties of natural or spiritual 
kinship. 

2. Place also on the right side such great events as have 
manifested God^s special providential care over our own 
Church, and those Diocesan, Parochial, or Missionary 
events for which you have felt thankful. 

3. Do not forget the many to whom you are indebted — 
rulers who have directed or strengthened national life, 
scholars by whose books you have been helped, artists whose 
pictures have given you inspiration, musicians whose har- 
mony has cheered you, and those whose counsel, words, and 
prayers have been given you. 

4. // was the practice of the Primitive Church to make 
all such commemorations at the Eucharist. Make ypurs at 
the Eucharist which falls nearest to their date. 

Remember the departed as well as the living in the 
Prayer for the Church Militant, the Consecration Prayer, 
and during the Communion. 

5. Do not forget to note God^ s personal mercies to your- 
self; e.g.. Birth, Baptism, Confirmation, First Commun- 
ion, Marriage, Ordination, etc., etc. 

Remember any particular blessing in the Prayer of Con- 
secration, amongst the ^'innumerable benefits procured to 
us'^ by the Precious Death of Christ, 



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28 

29 

30 

31 


Sapientia. 
















































5nnoeenf6'®a^ 












SlLVESTER,Bp- 









^ Mfe of ^castB, 

TO BE OBSERVED IN THIS CHURCH THROl GHOrT THE YEAR. 



All Sundays in the Year. 

The Circumcision of our Lord 

JESUS CHRIST. 
The Epiphany. 
The Conversion of St. Paul. 
The Purification of the Blessed 

Virgin. 
St. Matthias the Apostle. 
The Annunciation of the Blessed 

Virgin. 
St. Mark the Evangelist. 
St. PhiHp and St. James the 

Apostles. 
The Ascension of our Lord JESUS 

CHRIST. 
St. Barnabas the Ap>ostle. 
The Nativity of St. John Baptist. 
St. Peter the' Apostle. 
St. James the Apostle. 



The Transfiguration of our Lord 

JESUS CHRIST. 
St. Ijartholomew the Apostle, 
St. Matthew the Apostle. 
St. Michael and all Angels. 
St. Luke the Evangelist. 
St. Simon and St. J ude the Apostles. 
All Saints. 

St. Andrew the Apostle. 

St. Thomas the Apostle. 

The Nativity of our Lord JESUS 
CHRIST. 

St. Stephen the Martyr, 

St. John the Evangelist. 

The Holy Innocents, 

Monday and Tuesday in Easter- 
week. 

Monday and Tuesday in Whilsun- 
week. 



^ ZM of faefe. 

Ash-Wednesday. (iood Friday. 

OTHER DAYS OF FASTING. 

ON WHICH THE CHURCH REQUIRES SUCH A .MEASURE OF ABSTINENCE 
AS IS MORE ESPECIALLY SUITED TO EXTRAORDINARY ACTS 
.\ND EXERCISES OF DEVOTION. 

I. The Forty Days of Letit. 
II. The Ember-days at the Four Seasons, f The First Sunday in Lent. 

being the J The Feast of Pentecost, 

Wednesday, Fj-iday, and Saturday \ September 14, and Decem- 
after i ber 13, 

III. The three Rogatioji-days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wed- 

nesday before Holy T/ntrsday, or the Ascension of our Lord. 

IV. All the Fridays in the year, except Christmas-day. 

In addition to the above, the first Thursday in November (or, if any 
other day be appointed by the Civil Authority, then such day) shall be 
observed as a Day of Thanksgiz'ijig to Almighty God, for the Fruits of 
the Earth, and all other Blessings of his merciful Providence. 









WHEN TWO FEASTS OR HOLY DAYS FALL UPON THE SAME DAY, 

{Drawn up by a Committee of the Convocation of the 
Church of England.) 

When two Feasts or Holy Days happen to fall upon the same day, then 
shall be said the whole service proper to the day, placed in the left-hand 
column of the following table ; and, wheresoever in the service, the collect 
for the day is appointed to be said, then shall the collect for the day 
placed in the right-hand column, immediately follow. 

First Sunday in Advent takes precedence of St. Andrew. 
Fourth Sunday in Advent St. Thomas. 
St. Stephens ~| 

St. John 1 11 j First Sunday after Christ- 
Innocents Day r \ mas. 
Circumcision J 

Epiphany " | Seccmd Sunday after Christ- 
Conversion of St. Paul " - \ Third Sunday after Epiph- 

f any. 

f Fourth Sundayafter Epiph- 
1 any. 

Purification " Septuagesima. 

1 Sexagesima. 
[ Quinquagesima. 

Septuagesima and Sexa- \ Conversion of St. Paul. ^ 
gesima ) 

Septuagesima 1 
Sexagesima 

Quinquagesima \ " St. Matthias, 
Ash Wednesday 
Sundays in Lent J 

( First, Second, Third, Fourth 
Annunciation " " ^ and Fifth Sundays in 

( Lent. 

Any Day in Holy Week " " The Annunciation. 
Easter Day and two 1 u n S The Annunciation, 
days following j" \ St. Mark. 

T c J u f St. Mark. 

Low Sunday -j pj^.^-p gt. James. 

Ascension Day " *' St. Philip and St. James. 
Whitsunday and two ) 

days following f Barnabas. 
Trinity Sunday j 
St. Barnabas and alii 

o^ther Holy Days till ! Sundays after Trinity. 

All Samts Day, in- j ^ ^ 

elusive J 







The Eucharistic Offering. 



CHAPTER I. 

THE lord's supper A EUCHARIST WHICH WE OFFER 
THROUGH COMMUNION WITH THE LORD. 

Eucharist " and Communion " the most ancient 
and widely used names of the Lord's Supper. — Of 

the many names which the Church has given to 
this service, the two most famiUarly' known, as hav- 
ing- been most widely used, and as setting forth 
most clearly the two great features of the service, 
are Eucharist and Communion. It is true that the 
latter was never, perhaps, used strictly as a title for 
the service, like Liturgy, and, as a designation for 
the whole Office, has no claim to primitive use ; yet 
inasmuch as it was used by S. Paul to express the 
act of participation in the central part of what is 
now called the Communion Office, and inasmuch as 
it embodies a principle which runs through the 
service, its later application admits of ample justifi- 
cation." ^ With regard to the title " Eucharist," it 
is not too much to say that it was the favorite 

1 Luckock, "The Divine Liturgy," pp. 22, 23. 

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designation at first."' There are good reasons for 
supposing that S. Paul is speaking of it under this 
name, both in his first letter to the Corinthians, 
" How sliali he that occupieth the room of the 
unlearned say Anien at thy giving of thanks," - and 
in his tirst letter U) S. Timothy, " 1 exhort tiiat 
giving of thanks be made for all men;"^ and the 
evidence from the " Doctrine of the Twelve Apos- 
tles " makes it quite clear that it was a title of the 
Sacrament as early as "the last quarter of the first 
century."* f>om that time it " became so common 
and attractive, that it was adopted into other lan- 
guages, both Latins and Syrians using it in an 
untranslated form." 

Enough has been said to justify our taking the 
two thoughts which the words Eucharist and Com- 
munion embody as expressing the leading features in 
our LiiuTLTX'. We shall now consider thei r meanint''. 

The First Celebration a Thanksgiving for the 
Redemption of the World. — Ail tiie accounts of 
that first Celebration record the fact that, before: 
He brake the bread, our Lord gave thanks. 
Amidst the gloom cast over the disciples by the 
announcement of betrayal and imminent death, 

' Luckock, " The Divine Liturgfy," p. 27. ^ i Cor. xiv. 16. 

3 I S. Tim. ii. i. * ' The Divine Liturgy." p. 2q. 

* S. Matthew and S. Mark use the phrase He blessed'" in con- 
nection with the breaking of the bread, but this practically means 
the same thing. (C/. Alford. S. Matt. xxvi. 26.) 



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one Voice was heard thanking- the Father. On 
that " darkest day the world can ever see, with 
foes about and treachery w^ithin, in bitter loneH- 
ness of spirit, under the dreadful shadow of death, 
Jesus, our Master, held fast the red chord of praise 
and gladness, and in the very night of the betrayal, 
though His soul grew troubled and His heart 
shuddered, He took bread and lifted up His eyes 
to Heaven and gave thanks."^ But let us note 
that the thanksgiving is joined to offering. It was 
not of the character of a "grace before meals;"- 
that had been spoken at the beginning of the feast> 
This is bound up with the words, " This is My 
Body which is given for yott.'*^ It is again re- 
peated before the words, " This is My Blood of 
the New Testament, which is shed for many for 
the remission of sins.'' It is sacrificial thanks- 
giving. We see the High Priest of Humanity 
already lifting up that great Sacrifice which is to 
redeem the world, and rejoicing so to do. This is 
the leading feature of the new rite. Quite indepen- 
dently of all that may be urged for the phrase, "Do 
this," as for the word " anamnesis," which an un- 
prejudiced commentator^ says has **a sacrificial 



1 H. S. Holland, " Creed and Character," p. 305. 

2 Edersheim, " The Temple : its Ministry and Services," p. 204. 

3 S. Luke xxii. 19. '* S. Matt. xxvi. 28, 
* Plumptre, Comm. on S. Matt. xxvi. 26, 



4 il]c (Eucliaristic (Dffcring. 



aspect of its own," and for the word "covenant," so 
closely associated with sacrifice, the whole action, as 
depicted in those few lines which describe the first 
Celebration, is charged with offering and thanks- 
giving. So clearly does this appear to be the case that 
the act of communion seems — we speak with all rev- 
erence — to be subordinate to this great end. It is 
the means by which the disciples may be enabled to 
do what He is doing. It is the strength by which they 
may rise to that same sublime height of thanksgiving, 
by which they, when giving up all that is most dear 
to man, — honour, home, friends, and life, — may 
learn to thank GoD. 

Its Connection with the Passover. — But, further, 
the Pa.^^o\cr, out of which it sprang, was a great 
thanksgiving, and being this, the first Eucharist 
was as naturally connected with the past as it was 
with the future. There can be no question that 
*• thank-offering " was the central feature of that 
service which Dr. Edersheim ^ rightly says, "our 
LORD transformed into the LORD'S Supper." No one 
can read his stirring account of that festival, with its 
bursts of Alleluias, whilst the blood of the Paschal 
lambs was cast by the priest in one jet at the base 
of the altar, without feeling some concern that our 
service, which commemorates the redemption of a 
world, should awaken less enthusiasm than that 

1 Edersheim, " The Temple : its Ministry and Services," p. 200. 



©ucliaristic ©ffmng, s 



which celebrated the redemption of a nation. In 
the Passover, too, there was the Communion. The 
great thanksgiving in the temple, in which the 
representative of the families alone joined, was 
brought home to the youngest members by the 
solemn participation in the sacrificed lamb, and by 
the Psalms and Alleluias which formed so large a 
part of the home devotions. What a flood of light 
this old festival throws on the new ! We under- 
stand to what our Lord was bidding His disciples 
when He said, **Do this." He was putting a new 
form of thanksgiving in place of an old, substituting 
a world-Eucharist for a national thanksgiving. Its 
destiny from the very first was to be universal. 
Instead of being limited to a nation or a definite 
place, this new sacrificial worship may take place 
anywhere ; instead of the lamb that on some occa- 
sions could not be obtained, bread, wine, and the 
living Church are all that are necessary. Gradu- 
ally it will overspread the whole earth and fill every 
space of time. Even now there is no race without 
it, as there is probably no hour of the day when its 
voice is silent. And so we are moving on towards 
that great fulfilment, a sketch of which is given in 
the fifth chapter of Revelation. The Church above 
is with us. Our cold, feeble, scantily attended Eu- 
charists are part of that ceaseless Intercession and 
Self-oblation of "the Lamb standing in the midst 



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of the throne as it had been slain," ^ which alone 
gives them ciignity and worth. Hy His Presence 
and \'irtue we are lifted up to the heavenly places 
"where the choirs of angels and redeemed sing- 
more perfectly the triumph song- of the Lamb." 
With angels and archangels, and with all the com- 
[)aiiy of Heaven, we laud and magnify the glorious 
name of ('.oD, tor the whole earth is full of His 
gloi'w 

This view of the Eucharist an uplifting one. — It 
i.s ordy a faulty conception of thanksgiving that 
leads to a feeling of disappointment on learning 
that Lucharist is the purpose of Communion, and 
not Communion the object of LLucharist. For the 
education in thanksgiving is the very end of life. 
When we have attainecl the height to which our 
Lord points, we mav then say, so far as our own 
life is concerned, " It is finished." Thanksgiving is 
the highest expression of faith and love. It is such 
a realization of God's love to us as makes us ready 
for any enterprise to which He may call us, however 
desperate. It is no mere lip service or transient 
emotion caused by the sense of some recent mercy, 
but a deep, eternal, abiding, unshakable possession, 
founded on the great facts of creation, redemption, 
means of grace, and hope of future glory, which 



1 Rev. V. 6. 



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rejoices to find new fields of sacrifice for its exer- 
cise. " Tiianksgiving- ! this is our worship, and in 
the form of thanksgiving our rehgion embraces 
everything that life on earth can bring before it." ^ 

The Thanksgiving Sacrificial. — Thanksgiving, 
then, is the main purpose of the service, but, as 
we have seen, thanksgiving in a new way, a pecul- 
iarly solemn way, in act as well as word. It is 
sacrificial thanksgiving. We place ourselves be- 
side our Lord in that act which foreshadowed the 
loss of all that we count precious. We rehearse the 
scene of the upper chamber, point by point. We 
take the bread, give thanks, break it, use His words 
over it ; take the cup, again give thanks, again use 
His words. We set forth His Death, we lift It up 
on high, we magnify It as our only boast, our chief 
glory, our one hope. And in so doing, the veil 
between Heaven and earth is lifted, and we find our- 
selves one with Him in that ceaseless presentation 
of **' Himself for us in the inexhaustible virtue of His 
past suffering." At the altar we do with Him what 
He Himself does in Heaven. " Although He is for- 
ever seated there, as one whose toils are over, yet 
He is a * Priest upon His throne ' (Zech. vi. 13), and 
is perpetually engaged in presenting on our behalf 
the life which He once for all laid down, and has 



1 H. S. Holland, " Creed and Character," p. 305. 



8 tll]c CPncl]aristic (Offering. 



taken a^^ain, and never needs to lay down from 
henceforth. By means of that Sacrament which He 
puts into our hands we do the same." ' Our act 
means, of necessity, that we pledge ourselves to its 
spirit. We there and then confess that the life of 
selt-ohlation is the best life ; that to give is better 
than to receive ; to lose, greater than to gain. 
We then and there dedicate " ourselves, our souls 
and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living 
sacrifice to ( i( >i >." 

It depends upon and demands Communion. — It is 
when we rcali/e I'nat tlie purpose of the service 
is that we may be made one with our Lord, both in 
act and spirit, in the pleading of His great obla- 
tion, that we see the necessity of Communion. We 
are so stained and defiled with sin that we can- 
not appear before GoD in our own behalf at all. 
The God whom we worship is " a consuming fire," 
and can only be approached by Him who is "the 
Way." " Xo man cometh unto the Father, but by 
Me."- It is true that we now have boldness in spite 
of ** the frankest recognition of our sins ; " but only 
to use the entrance into the Holiest which He has 
provided. And there is no entrance into the Divine 
Presence sa^^e in "the Blood of Jesus," i.e., "in the 
power of the human life of the Lord offered up and 

' Mason, " Faith of the Gospel," 3d edition, p. 330. 
2 S. John xiv. 6. 



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made available for us."^ The fresh and living way 
into the Holiest which He has consecrated for us is 
the way of His Flesh. In some way we must share 
in the virtue of His humanity, be sprinkled with His 
blood, before we can join Him in the exercise of 
His Priestly Office. So the Lord made His disciples 
one with Him in His work upon the Cross by first 
giving them His Body and His Blood. Though He 
knew they could not understand, though He prophe- 
sied they would all forsake Him and flee, yet He 
willed they should be identified with Him in His 
Great Oblation upon the Cross : I and the children 
which God hath given Me."^ And so He comes in 
each Communion to incorporate us with Him, that 
we may stand with Him as priests before the Father, 
clothed in the marriage garment of His righteous- 
ness, inspired by His spirit, strengthened by His 
life. There could be no Eucharist without Com- 
munion. 



CHAPTER II. 

THANK-OFFERING IS THE INTERPRETATION WHICH 
THE CHURCH HAS GIVEN THE LORD'S SUPPER. 

How the Church in her Liturgies has interpreted 
our Lord's intention in the Eucharist. — It would be 



1 Bishop Westcott, on Heb. x. 19, 



2 Heb. ii. 13. 



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impossible within the limits of a short chapter 
to show killy iiow the principle running- througii 
the ancient Liturgies, as well as those now in use 
throughout the catholic world, is one of thanks- 
giving. "The VLMv earliest of all — that given in 
'The Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles,* a form of 
words with which some branch of the Church of 
the tirst century observed the commemoration ap- 
j)()inted by our Blessed Lord — has thanksgiving for 
its main j)urpose." ' 

An account of the l^ucharist given by Justin ^L1r- 
tyr (a. D. 139) is to the same effect : " When we have 
finished the prayers we salute one another with a 
kiss. Then bread and a cup of water and mixed 
wine are offered to him who takes the lead amongst 
the brethren. And when he has taken them, he 
sends up praise and glory to the Father of all, 
through the Name of the Son and the Holy Cihost, 
and he gives thanks at considerable length for our 
being counted worthy to receive these things from 
Him, . . . and this food is called among us the 
Eucharist."^ And so we might go on, taking every 
description or form of ancient celebration, and find- 
ing plain testimony to the Eucharistic spirit. It 
may suffice, however, to direct attention to those 
leading features which are common to all Liturgies, 

1 E. Burbidge. " Liturgies and Offices of the Church,"" pp. 24, 25. 

2 Justin Martyr, Apol. I., cap. 65, 66. Quoted by Burbidge. p. 27. 



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both ancient and modern. These are the Offertory, 
the Sanctus, and the Consecration and Oblation. 
Their intention is obvious enough. The Offertory 
is the willing offering oi our substance ; the Sanctus, 
the reverent offering of our praise ; and the Great 
Oblation, the mystical offering of the precious Sac- 
rifice of Christ once made upon the Cross. Sacri- 
fice, which is the essential spirit of thanksgiving, is 
the inspiration of all. So we see that the words 
which we apply to our own service, "our sacrifice 
of praise and thanksgiving," may be applied to 
them all. Not that we are to suppose that the office 
of Communion is made up of three separate acts of 
thanksgiving ; there is but one Eucharist ; the 
" Offertory " and " Sanctus " are preparatory to the 
Offering of the Great Oblation, and, incorporated 
with It, they become pleasing to God. They are 
the means by which we are enabled to understand 
something of Its great significance; they entered 
largely into that act which was not only a sacri- 
fice of "the Body prepared," but a glorification of 
the Father, a proclamation to the world of His 
Holiness ; ^ and by our share in them we are taught 
how we may be in spirit * as well as in act ' one with 
Him who is a Priest forever." ^ 

Every Liturgy, then, which any branch of His 



1 Rom. iii. 25, 26. 



2 Heb. vii. 17. 



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Church acknowledges, bears out the interpretation 
to which the Scripture lends itself most readily. 
Nothing has been said about the act of Participa- 
tion, for that will be most readily taken for granted 
by those who use this book. It is sufficient to say 
that in the first days Communion was expected of 
all those who were not in any sense excommunicate. 

How our own branch of the Church has inter- 
preted our Lord's meaning. — Before showing in 
detail how the office itself explains the meaninj^- 
of the Lord's Supper, it will not be amiss to call 
to mind particular expressions in which this view 
of the service is emphasized. Wlien the child 
is asked, "Why was the Sacrament of the LORO's 
Supper ordained ? " he is not taught to answer, 
"For the strengthening and refreshing of our 
souls," but, " For the continual remembrance of 
the sacrifice of the death of Christ and of the 
benefits which we receive thereby." The word 

remembrance " has the same meaning that it has 
in the New Testament where " memorial " would be 
probably a more intelligible and fuller rendering, 
bringing out the thought of calling GOD to re- 
membrance as well as that of reminding our- 
selves.^ 

Again, three out of the five questions of self-ex- 



1 St. Luke xxii. 19. 



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amination proposed by the Catechism point to the 
necessity of a thankful spirit for the communicant. 
He must not come unless he has "a lively faith in 
God's mercy through Christ," a thankful remem- 
brance of His Death, and is in charity with all men. 
A sullen, uncharitable, or discontented disposition 
would be out of harmony with the whole thought of 
the service. What is necessary is "the marriage 
garment;" that is, "the temper of heaven, the 
spirit of a holy sympathy with the ways and 
works of God, the rejoicing anticipation that exults 
in the new scene of duty before it, . . . the 
joy suitable to this mighty spousal of earth and 
heaven." ^ 

Again, the service itself continually reminds us of 
this. " Above all things ye must give most humble 
and hearty thanks." "To Him therefore, with the 
Father and the Holy Ghost, let us give (as we are 
most bounden) continual thanks." " Let us give 
thanks unto our Lord God." " It is very meet, 
right, and our bounden duty, that we should at 
all times, and in all places, give thanks." " There- 
fore, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name." 
"Chiefly are we bound to praise Thee." "Feed 
on Him by faith with thanksgiving." "Be thank- 
ful/' "Glory be to GOD on high," etc. The whole 



1 Ci>. Archer Butler's Sermons, I., p. 201. 



14 ®ucl)aristic ©ffmng. 



office is Eucharistic, and the penitential parts are, 
as we shall see, all ordered with a view to our 
being able to enter into that lofty spirit of thanks- 
giving which pervades the whole. It is equally 
true that Communion is not lost sight of. Again 
and again we are warned as to the necessity of 
penitence, faith, and charity for those who would be 
made one with Him, by the receiving of His Blessed 
Body and Blood ; but there is also with this the 
plainest recognition of the great fact that reception 
is for the purpose of our entering into His life. 
We receive, that we may offer up our souls 
and bodies to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sac- 
rifice unto the Father" — that "we may do all 
such good works as GoD has prepared for us to 
walk in." 



CHAPTER III. 

OUTLINE OF THE OFFICE. 

Before proceeding to show how the different parts 
of the service are linked together so that they form 
one great whole, it will be well to describe it gen- 
erally. There are, as we have seen, three great 
features standing out plainly above the rest — the 
Offertory, the Sanctus, and the Consecration and 
Oblation. These present a gradual ascent in devo- 



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tion. The sacrifice of the body in ahnsgiving, and 
of the spirit in intercession, is the simplest step. 
The sacrifice of praise is more difficult. It not only 
demands an intelligent conception of Him Whom we 
praise, but a chastened spirit and purity of heart, 
for only the pure in heart can see GOD." ^ But this 
second ascent is still a long way from the topmost 
height where our LORD calls us to join Him in the 
pleading of His great Offering. To this, indeed, we 
can only be lifted by His own gift of Himself; but, 
that we may receive this inestimable blessing aright, 
we need a still higher spiritual energy, a still deeper 
humility than that which inspires us to offer the 
Sanctus. That this progress of devotion may be 
indicated, we have entitled the parts of the service by 
those names which each division of the Tabernacle 
bore. And there is a fitness in this; for if "the 
Tabernacle symbolized GOD dwelling with man in 
Christ," '"^ then the service which applies this great 
truth to our souls may fittingly bear some resem- 
blance to it in its leading features. And if the 
threefold division of the Tabernacle contained " a 
figurative and typical representation of the three 
progressive stages by which the kingdom of GOD on 
earth arrives at its visible manifestation and ulti- 
mate completion/'-'^ it may also figure the three 



» S. Matt. V. 8. 2 Willis, " Worship of the Covenant," p. 96. 
3 Kurtz, Sacrificial Worship of the Old Covenant." 



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progressive stages by which the soul reaches its 
final perfection in union with the sacrificed life of 
Christ. Whether this be seen or not, the names 
"Outer Court," " Holy Place," and " Holy of Holies," 
will serve to emphasize the thought of gradual ap- 
proach, and perhaps help to indicate some of the 
leading- features of each part of the Office. Thus 
much will explain the g-eneral divisions. It will be 
further seen, by looking at the plan placed imme- 
diately following, that the divisions are to some 
extent alike. In each there is an appeal for our 
Lord's help to make the offering, in eacli an answer 
to that appeal, and in each an offering by virtue 
of our Lord's union with us. In the first two there 
is, in addition, a call to devotion, supplied in the first 
by the Decalogue, in the second by our own Church. 
It only remains to be noted that the Lord's Prayer 
and the Collect for Purity, formerly the priest's 
"Office of Preparation, are now also used as our own 
preparation for the whole service ; whilst the Lord's 
Prayer, the Prayer of Thanksgiving, and the Gloria 
in Excelsis are so far corresponding that they may 
be said to form a natural office of Post-Communion. 
With this short introduction it is hoped the plan 
itself will be clear. 



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The Eucharistic Office arranged after the Plan 
of the Tabernacle. 

A. IN THE OUTER COURT. 

I. THE APPROACH. The Lord's Prayer. TJie 

Collect for Purity. 
II. THE OFFERING OF SERVICE. 

{a) The Call. The Decalogtie. 

\b) The Appeal. 7'he Kyrie and Collects, 

\c) The Answer. The Gospel. 

\d) The Offering. The Creed. The Offertory. 

The Prayer for Christ's 
Chtirch militant. 

B. IN THE HOLY PLACE. 

THE OFFERING OF PRAISE. 

{a) The Call. The Two Exhortations, 

(b) The Appeal. The Confession. 

(c) The Answer. The Absolutioji and the 

Comfortable Words, 
id) The Offering. The Sanctus. 

C IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

I. THE OFFERING OF THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST. 

(b) The Appeal. The Prayer of HurMe 

Access. The Prayer of 
Consecration. 

(c) The Answer. The Gift of the Body and 

Blood of Christ, 
id) The Offering. The Prayer of Oblation. 

II. THE THANKSGIVING. The Lord' s Prayer . The 

Prayer o f Than ks giving. 
The Gloria in Excelsis, 

III. THE BENEDICTION. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

IN THE OUTER COURT. 

The Offering of Service. — Introduction. — This 
first Part has been named the Outer Court, because 
we see a certain correspondence between the fur- 
niture of the court and the parts of the Eucharistic 
office. First, there was the great Laver, " placed 
in the most convenient position for the ministering 
priests, who were always | to wash at it their hands 
and feet before serving at the altar, lest they should 
die ; " and corresponding to this we have our "Col- 
lect for Purity," in which we ask for the cleansing 
operation of the Holy Ghost, that we may worthily 
magnify God'S Holy Name. But the Laver, mag- 
nificent as it was, was quite subordinate to the 
great Altar, which seemed to dominate the whole 
court; so the first prayers look on to the first 
Offering, that of our minds to the study of God's 
revealed Truth, that of our bodies to the work of 
His Church, and that of our spirits to the ministry 
of intercession and thanksgiving. 

I. The Approach. ( The Lord's Prayer and Collect for 
Purity?) 

The Lord's Prayer is not only an act of fel- 
lowship with Him who gave it, but it outlines the 



^l]c ffiucliaristic ©ffering. 19 



whole service in which we are to engage. Devo- 
tion to God's Name and to His Kingdom which 
expresses that Name on earth ; self-consecration to 
His will, through the Food which He gives ; for- 
giveness for the past and help for the future — are the 
chief elements in the Eucharistic Service. The Col- 
lect for Purity puts these thoughts into one defi- 
nite petition, which sets forth the object of the ser- 
vice in an unmistakable way. We ask that by the 
inspiration of the Holy Ghost " we may worthily 
magnify God's Holy Name." The exaltation of 
God's Name is thus put in the forefront as the pur- 
pose of our devotions. That Name is written most 
plainly in the Cross, and we lift it on high when 
we set forth before the Father the Passion of the 
Son. That we may do this worthily, we rely on the 
inspiration of the Holy Ghost. He alone it is who 
is able to cleanse our thoughts from worldly imag- 
inations, and concentrate them upon the Passion of 
our Lord with perfect love and devotion. 

II. The Offering of Service. {Decalogue — Prayer 
for Church Militant?) 

{a) The Call. (The Decalogue.) — The prepara- 
tion over, we now approach to make our first offer- 
ing ; but on the threshold we are shown the reve- 
lation of what that offering ought to be. In the 
Ten Commandments we see the ideal of perfect 



20 ^[)c Q:ucl]aristic ©ffering. 



service, and hear our Lord bidding us become 
perfect even as our " Father in Heaven is perfect." 
The Law was perfectly fulfilled for us in Him, and 
He has been rightly called *'the Incarnation of the 
Law." These Ten Words express to us, step by 
step, the Master's Life. In them we have an ex- 
ample that we should follow His steps. ^ 

(d) The Appeal. (The Kyrie and Collects.) — 
But as we gaze on this Ideal of Humanity and 
realize our own unlikeness, we cry for pity. Feat- 
ure by feature we see the Divine image in which 
we were made, marred and spoiled. We recognize, 
too, how slow our wills are to appreciate its beauty. 
The cry goes up, " Have mercy." It has but one 
aim, to love the ideal more and more, and to make 
it its own. " Incline our hearts to keep this law. 
Write all these Thy laws in our hearts." It is 
not, however, content with this general petition ; it 
collects its thoughts together in one definite aim, 
suggested by the season in which its devotions are 
being uttered, and throws itself upon the compassion 
of the Lord, and there it stays. The Church here 
comes forth to comfort and stimulate the soul in 
ancient healthful words of Apostles and Prophets. 
It prepares it for the first coming of the LORD. It 
enlarges its capacity by its moving expressions. 

{c^ The Answer. (The Gospel.) — The attitude of 



1 I S. Peter ii. 21. 



QL[)c ®ttcl]ari6tk QDffmng, 21 



supplication is now changed. The Church stands 
to receive the cleansing words of the Lord. But 
before the reception, she acknowledges the good- 
ness of her Lord by a burst of praise. ''Glory be 
to Thee, O LORD," we cry, in anticipation of His 
refreshing Word. This reading of the Gospel has 
always been attended with the greatest reverence. 
As an old English writer says, " We hearken to it 
with like reverence, receive it with like good, and 
retain it with like gratitude, as if Jesus Himself was 
sacramentally and visibly present. For thus the 
Greek Liturgy orders, and the ancients used to say 
before the Gospel, * Glory be to Thee, O Lord,' and 
afterwards, ' Thanks be to GOD for His Holy Gos- 
pel,' 'tanquam Christo pr^esenti,'^ as if Christ was 
then before their eyes." " So the great Origen," says 
Bossuet in his panegyric of St. Paul, " did not fear to 
tell us that the word of the Gospel is like the Body 
of our Lord, the food of our souls." In this way 
the Lord answers our sore need, and through the 
comforting inspiration of His Word we are enabled 
to go forward and make our first offering. 

(d) The Off ermg of Service. (The Creed, Offer- 
tory, Prayer for Church Militant.) — This is our first 
act of praise and thanksgiving. We make it here 
that we may make it again more fully when we are 



1 " A Companion to the Temple," III. 57, 58. 



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admitted through the Blood of Jesus into the Holy 
of Holies. Its symbols are the Creed, the Offer- 
tory, and the Prayer for the Church Militant. In 
the first, we offer up our minds in reverent submis- 
sion to that body of truth " unto which we were 
delivered ; " ^ in the second, our bodies in laborious 
devotion to His service ; and in the third, our spirits 
in earnest intercessions for His Kingdom. Each of 
these demands a few words of explanation. 

Sacrifice of the Mind. (The Creed.) — The recita- 
tion of the Creed is our loyal response to the word, 

Thou shalt love the LORD thy GOD with all thy 
mind." Creeds are " acts of devotion, psalms, 
hymns of praise, of confession, and of profound self- 
prostrating homage, parallel to the Canticles of the 
elect in the Apocalypse."- Our repetition of the 
Creed, then, is no mere acquiescence in God's truth, 
but an act of love towards it, " calling forth our 
energies, directing their application, exacting their 
service."^ In its opening words, I believe," we 
pledge ourselves to a more earnest search inta its 
meaning ; we lay our intellects upon God's altar, 
confessing openly that the great facts in which we 
profess our faith are those which to us are of first 
and last importance. But we go further. The full 
phrase, "I believe in," expresses more than that 



1 Rom. vi. 17. 2 Newman, " Grammar of Assent," p. 129. 

3 Westcott, " Historic Faith." p. 27. 



®ucliaristic ©ffering. 23 



certain facts are true and demand our allegiance. 
It speaks of a personal relationship with the Divine 
Persons of the Godhead, and confesses, "I have 
found, and I trust without reserve, Him who made, 
redeemed, and sanctifies me." ^ 

Sacrifice of the Body. (The Offertory and Obla- 
tion of Bread and Wine.) — This homage and self- 
surrender is not confined to the intellect and im- 
agination : it expresses itself in gifts. We give to 
God and we give to man. The Eucharist depends 
upon our offerings. He still asks, "How many 
loaves have ye ? " *' He cannot begin until we men 
bring Him something. His material comes from 
us."^ We are to offer the bread which is to be to 
us the Bread from Heaven, the Blessed Bread of 
God. We are to ofi'er the wine which is to be to 
us the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the 
first great oblation — Nature ofi'ering through us, her 
priests, her gifts. Our act confesses what we say 
in words, All things come of Thee, O LORD, and 
of Thine own have we given Thee." But this is 
made the more real to us by our own individual 
offerings. That " which we have laid by according 
as God hath prospered us," we give, not grudgingly, 
nor of necessity, but cheerfully, with thanksgiving. 
Our words of faith pass into actions. We offer up 

1 Westcott, " Historic Faith," p. 24. 

2 H. S. Holland, " Creed and Character," p. 107. 



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the results of our daily work in acknowledgment that 
our harvest is of GOD who gives the increase. We 
present w^hat we call the secular side of life. We 
lift up in thanksgiving the routine of the counting 
house, the drudgery of household service, the toil of 
manual labor, " and lo ! the light is on it, and glory 
embraces it, and there is joy among the angels of 
God over the heart that gives thanks."^ 

Sacrifice of the Spirit. (Prayer for the Church 
Militant.) — But we cannot stay here : not yet is our 
first thanksgiving complete. We have made grate- 
ful recollection of God's undoubted works in our 
behalf; we have acknowledged in an act of thanks- 
giving what we call His temporal mercies ; we 
must now praise Him for the hope of glory. No- 
where does this shine out more conspicuously than 
in the love of His Saints. They reflect the glory of 
God. " Each Saint receives and shows some trait 
of the perfect Manhood of his Master. Slowly, and 
through manifold energies, the members of Christ 
show us the grandeur and beauty of the One Life 
by which they are inspired." The earth is filled 
with His glory. So we learn to bless God's Holy 
Name for all His servants departed this life in His 
faith and fear. So we call up in grateful memory 
saints whom we have known, to give definiteness to 



1 H. S. Holland, " Creed and Character," p. 307. 



QEiTcljaristic Offering- 25 



our thanksgiving. And, doing this, we are filled 
with a great hope. The wonderful possibilities of 
human life are clear before us ; for all men are 
equally dear to GOD, all equally capable of being 
blessed. The whole human race is irradiated with 
the glory of the Saints. And we learn to give thanks 
for all men, and to pray with confidence. So taught, 
in spite of our many and unhappy divisions, we can 
pray for unity ; in spite of failures, we can pray for 
all Christian rulers, all bishops and other ministers, 
and all God's people, wherever they be ; in spite of 
the hardness which pain and want produce, we can 
ask in hope for consolation for all those who are in 
trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adver- 
sity. Our thanksgiving for all God's Saints inspires 
hope, and hope breaks into fervent petitions for the 
whole state of Christ's Church militant. 



CHAPTER V. 

IN THE HOLY PLACE. 

The Offering of Praise. — IntrodMciion. — There is 
a marked difference between the Holy Place and 
the outer court. The altar of incense speaks of a 
more spiritual worship ; the embroidered hangings 
w^orked with the figures of angels remind us of 
those glorious beings whom w^e summon to help 



26 ®ucl]ari6tic CDffmng. 



us in our praise ; the seven-branched candlestick 
with its brilliant lights warns us of the Light of 
God, in which we not only have a truer knowledge 
of Him, but also of ourselves ; and the Table with 
its Bread of the Presence promises a blessed Com- 
munion. 

(a) The Call. (The Exhortation.) — In the first of 
these the dominant note of this part of the service 
is clearly heard. " Above all things ye must give 
most humble and hearty thanks to God, the Father, 
the Son, and the Holy Ghost, for the redemption of 
the world by the death and passion of our Saviour 
Christ." This thanksgiving which is made in " the 
Sanctus " at once points to a more difficult task than 
that in which we have been engaged. We can serve 
when we cannot praise. The slave may do the 
duty that lies before him, but only the son or friend 
can praise. Praise implies full confidence and true 
sympathy. It bespeaks insight. We cannot praise 
the sonata unless we are musical, or the picture 
unless we have artistic instincts. As nature will not 
rouse our enthusiasm unless we have eyes to see 
her beauty, so none can see GoD except the pure 
in heart.' Hence the first appeal is to self-exami- 
nation and penitence. We must acknowledge our 
sin and be absolved from it before we can give 



1 S. Matt. V. 8. Heb. xii. 14. 



eriie ®ucl]ari5tic QDffering. 27 



glory to God. If we would fully realize the joy of 
God's salvation and the upholding of His free spirit, 
so that our tongue shall sing aloud of His righteous- 
ness and shew forth His praise in gratitude and in 
gladness, we must often and often have realized the 
greatness of our sin and the depth of our degrada- 
tion. The knowledge of our sin lea,ds us to the 
knowledge of His infinite mercy, which no penitent 
can ever exhaust, and which is the theme here and 
in the heavenly courts of unceasing praise." ^ 

[b) The Appeal. (The Confession.) — In response 
to the Exhortation we make our lowly appeal, 
which is fuller and more penitential than that of 
the Kyrie. It is sin that hides the glory of GOD. 
We therefore acknowledge it that we may be rid 
of it. We have sinned in thought ; and so find it 
difficult to appreciate the Mind of GOD ; we have 
defiled our lips with sinful words, and so find it 
hard to bless GOD. " Doth a fountain send forth at 
the same place sweet water and bitter ?" - We have 
weighed down our lives by wicked actions, and so 
find our souls too heavy to rise into a spiritual 
atmosphere. The "burden" as we think of it 
becomes intolerable ; the remembrance " is grie-v- 
ous ; we entreat the "Judge of all men " to forgive 



1 Magee, " Christ the Light of All Scripture," p. 102. 

2 S. Jas. iii. 11. 



28 (Bnci)axmiit CDffmng* 



us all that is past, that we may henceforth *• serve 
and please Him in newness of life." 

(<r) T/ie Answer. (The Absolution.) — To us in our 
helpless condition come the old words, "Son, thy sins 
be forgiven thee." What a welcome sound 1 What 
a rush of joy as the realization of pardon begins to be 
felt ! The Lord meets our new need in a new way. 
It is not Wisdom Incarnate cleansing the mind with 
His health-giving words, but the good and wise 
Physician penetrating the dark mysteries of the 
spirit and loosing the bands of iniquity. As we 
receive the words from one who is commissioned to 
pronounce them, **the currents of grace flow into 
our souls ; we feel and appropriate God's forgiving 
love. We have a sense of reconcilement which no 
unauthorized declaration can give. The floodgates 
of grace are opened, and the gifts of God's grace 
accompany the acts which He has appointed to be 
done." ^ We are freed from the burden of the past 
and can now praise GOD with a free heart. Our 
eyes are opened, our tongue is loosed, and we are 
able to see the glory of God and shew forth His 
righteousness. 

The Vision. (The Comfortable Words.) — In the 
first word our Lord invites us, weary with our sins, 
to ascend the mount of His Holiness and there to 



1 Bishop Wilberforce, " Life and Letters." 



@;i)e ©ucliaristic QDff^ring. 29 



gaze upon the Love and Mercy of GOD. In the 
second word we are shown the greatness of God's 
love to the world, " broader than the measure of 
man's mind," for it moved Him to give His only 
begotten Son. This vision of the riches of God's 
love, beyond the power of our comprehension, is 
followed in the third word by one which makes it 
plain to us in an unmistakable w^ay. We cannot tell 
what the gift of the Son to the world meant to the 
Father ; it were dangerous to express our thoughts 
about it, for it is not revealed ; but we can under- 
stand something of the sacrifice of the Son. We 
see Him poor, homeless, persecuted, reviled, impris- 
oned, crucified, and we know that all was for our 
sake, to deliver us from bondage. We can see the 
" manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon 
us." If we ask what assurance have we that the 
obstinacy and wickedness of the world have not 
exhausted that love, that it still burns with the same 
intensity and warmth, we find our answer in the 
third word of comfort, If any man sin, we have 
an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Right- 
eous, and He is the propitiation of our sins." The 
vision of God's love is complete. 

{d) The Offering of Praise, (The Sursum Corda 
and Sanctus.) We can no longer refuse our re- 
sponse to the trumpet tones of the Church, Lift up 
your hearts." Every hard and narrow thought is 



30 ^\)c CEucl]arij5tic dDffering. 



gone, and we "lift them up unto the LORD." And, as 
we do so, we seem to catch the harmonies of heav- 
enly music, we feel ourselves to be encompassed by 
a mighty host of angels and archangels, we join in 
their timeless adoration of the holiness of GOD. The 
thrice repeated, " Holy, Holy, Holy," seems to place 
Him infinitely far off, and yet, though we acknowl- 
edge His transcendence above the world, in the 
same breath we declare not only heaven, but earth 
too, to be full of His glory. To the worldly mind it 
seems strange to assert that earth, stained as it is 
with its battle-fields, its dark places, its haunts of 
vice and misery, is the scene of God's glory ; but to 
those who can use the eye of faith is revealed the 
great and glorious purpose of GOD which no will 
can thwart. Under the evil, the tumults, the suf- 
ferings, there is a great plan working out which will 
eventually issue in the triumphant manifestation of 
the love and righteousness of GOD, so that all shall 
acknowledge with reverence and faith His Holiness 
and Glory. 

CHAPTER VL 

IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

L The Offering of the Sacrifice of Christ, — Intro- 
duction. — We now approach the Most Holy Place. 
The type suggests the greatest caution. None 



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but the High Priest could venture there, and that 
but once a year. It is true that the way is now 
open, but only ''through His Fleshy^ For the 
old, a new veil is substituted, "His Flesh." And 
our boldness to enter is not based on any assump- 
tion that the Father's character is changed, or that 
His Holiness is less awful. S. John is as much 
awestruck by a revelation of the Presence of GOD 
as Isaiah.- Our Lord's atoning work arouses our 
love, but does not encourage any familiarity with 
Him who yet remains "a consuming fire." ^ So it 
is well for us to bear in mind all that the Holy of 
Holies teaches. Its very size, a perfect cube, will 
remind us of the •* all perfect character of the Be- 
ing " * into whose Presence we now come : the ark 
containing the Law, the pot of manna, and Aaron's 
rod that budded, suggest not only the mystery of 
the Bemg of God, but His willingness to feed His 
people with heavenly manna if they will but sub- 
mit to the Authority and Guidance of His Church. 
The mercy seat covering the Law points to Him 
through whose merits alone we dare approach, and 
the Cherubim with their outstretched wings over- 
shadowing it, emphasize the Majesty and Glory of 
Him whose throne they guard. 



1 Heb. xi. 19. 2 Rev. i. 17. 

4 Fairbairn, " Typology," p. 379. 



3 Heb. xii. 28. 



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As we think of these things, we realize the Holi- 
ness of His Presence, the need of His strengthening 
food, and of the sprinkling of that Blood which 
speaketh better things than that of Abel," ^ 

There is no exhortation here, for none is needed. 
Absolved and cleansed by the word of the Lord, 
strengthened by the vision of God's Love, with all 
our powers quickened by the angels' song, we look 
forward with trembling joy to that coming of the 
Lord which is to make us one with our High Priest 
in His offering. With trembling, for we are about 
to approach the Table of the Father where He holds, 
through the mighty operation of the Holy Ghost, 
secret communion with the members of His Son's 
Mystical Body ; with joy, for w^e are about to pre- 
sent to Him, in the way He has commanded, the one 
''Sacrifice " which was ''perfect'' in its loss of all, 
the one Oblation " that was "full'' and enriched 
with every excellence, the one " Satisfaction " that 
was " sufficient" to meet every demand of justice. 

Poor and Y\^retched our best gifts are beside this, 
but placed beneath its shadow of excessive bright- 
ness, they are enwrapped in a glory which makes 
them acceptable. 

(b) The Appeal. — The Prayer of Humble Access. 
— This appeal goes further than either of the two 



* Heb. xii. 24. 



preceding. In it we plead for such a perfect one- 
ness with our Lord that the whole man, body as 
well as soul, may be purified and strengthened. 
We ask that our outward manners and ways, as 
well as our wills, may be penetrated by His glori- 
fied Humanity ; that our bodies with their rude 
appetites and impulses, as w^ell as our souls with 
their hidden, secret dispositions, may be purified 
by His life. And this with a view to the unspeak- 
able privilege to which we are about to be intro- 
duced, that of not only pleading with Him the 
merits of His ever precious sacrifice, but being re- 
ceived at the Table of the LORD of Hosts. 

Prayer of Consecration : (i) T/ie Gloria. — The 
appeal is continued in the Prayer of Consecration. 
Note well its first words. They strike the chord of 
praise, which is sustained till the Gloria in Ex eel- 
sis. With the Comfortable W^ords still ringing in 
our ears, we glorify the Father for the gift of the 
Son, and the Son both for the full, perfect, and suffi- 
cient Sacrifice and Oblation of Himself upon the 
Cross, and for the blessed and perpetual privilege 
of pleading that Sacrifice in the Eucharist. 

(2) Making the Memorial. — We are not content 
with words, for it was not in that way He taught us. 
He bade us break the Bread and bless It, take the 
Cup and bless It, these being the actions in which 
He first offered Himself to the Father ; for as He 



34 €ucliariQtic ©ffering. 



raised the sacred elements He said, This is My 
Body which is given for you ; This is My Blood 
which is shed for you." " It was the complete sur- 
render of Himself through the force of love when 
as yet there was no constraint, when no violence 
had been laid upon Him." ^ 

It cannot fail but that these His words and 
actions repeated before the throne of the Father 
carry with them a far greater efficacy than we can 
imagine. And this not only because of their deeply 
sacred and touching associations, but because they 
are the act of the Church of which He is the Head, 
and are done at His command. " For it is the 
very same LORD, with the same sacrifice and obla- ' 
tion of Himself, secretly present, and secretly acting 
as the same true ' Priest after the order of Melchise- 
dek,' through the hands and lips of His Human 
instruments applying the same precious Blood, and 
pleading the merits of the same sacrificed Body, as 
an act of redeeming love separate from death." 

{c) The Answer : (3) The Consecration. — This 
Commemoration depends for its efficacy on the Con- 
secration. It was by this act, the breaking of the s 
bread, the term under which all the separate actions 
were included, that our Lord was made known to 



^ Carter, " Spiritual Instructions on the Holy Eucharist," p. 84. 
2 Ibid. p. 86. 



®ucl)ari0tic ©Spring. 35 



the two disciples on the first Easter Day.^ It is by this 
act that "the real effectual life-giving Presence of 
Christ " in the Holy Communion, in which, according 
to a careful writer, the Church of the first ages be- 
lieved, is vouchsafed to us.^ Christ by It, for He does 
what His Church does, takes these earthly elements 
into union with Himself, that, through the invoca- 
tion of the Giver of Life, they may become to us the 
Body and Blood of Christ. According to the beau- 
tiful thought of the Roman Canon, the gifts of the 
Church are carried by the holy angel to the heavenly 
altar/ And not only they, but we ourselves, are 
lifted up " into the fellowship of Christ's life in 
Heaven."* We are made to sit together with Him 
in the heavenly places,^ we are placed among the 
powers of heaven.^ So the Church's commemora- 
tive act receives a new power. It is no longer oicr 
sacrifice, but that of Christ. 

(4) The Invocation. — Directly we apprehend. 



1 S. Luke xxiv. 35. 

2 Browne, "Thirty-nine Articles," p. 695. 

3 Gore, " The Eucharistic Sacrifice," p. 12. 

4 Cf. Gore's sermon on " The Eucharistic Sacrifice," where he 
urg-es that "the whole of New Testament language forces us to 
conceive of the Eucharist not as the bringing down of Christ 
again under conditions of earthly life, or of an external physical 
presence amongst men, but as our lifting up into the fellowship of 
His life in Heaven." (p. 13.) 

^ Eph. ii, 5, 6. 6 Heb. vi. 5. 



36 €ucl)ari6tic (Offering. 



however slightly, the greatness of the act in which we 
have been engaged — for the priest's action is ours — 
'* we break, w^e bless," ^ as St. Paul says, we feel the 
need of that which the Church now asks for. How^ 
can we rehearse before the Throne the Death of 
Christ without being made one with It, without re- 
ceiving power to carry forth Its spirit into the home 
and world ? Hence our appeal, that by the action 
of the Holy Ghost, the Giver of Life, the consecrated 
gifts of bread and wine may be the means whereby 
we receive the most blessed Body and Blood of the 
Lord. It is not for us to inquire how this mystery 
is effected ; how, to use the earliest language on the 
subject,^ " the bread receiving the invocation of GOD 
is no longer common bread, but Eucharist, made up 
of two tilings, an earthly and a heavenly." It is 
enough for us to remember that this most solemn 
invocation is made over the gifts, and not over our- 
selves. We call for the power of the Holy Ghost 
upon the bread and wine. It is not then our sub- 
jective act nor the moral fitness of the recipient 
which gives its reality to that sacrament, and effects 
the Awful Presence of the LORD therein. Our part is 
to wait for the Holy Ghost till He come ; and when 
He has blessed and sanctified the oblation, to draw 
near with faith and take the Body and Blood, feel- 



- I Cor. X. i6. 2 irenseus (c. a. d. i8g), Adv. Hser., iv. i8, §5. 



®XTcl]aristic QDffmng. 37 



ing- that GOD in Christ is all in all, and that it is He 
who giveth us the bread that feedeth unto everlast- 
ing- life." ^ 

{d) The Offering of the Sacrifice of Christ: 
(5) The Oblation. — It is the expectation of that 
Blessed Gift being ours that leads us to offer to the 
Father for His acceptance both the sacrifice of 
praise we offered in the Holy Place, and the sacrifice 
of devoted service we laid upon the altar in the 
Court. Under the old Jewish ritual, once in the 
year, the incense symbolical of spiritual devotion, 
and the blood symbolical of bodily devotion, were 
brought respectively from the Holy Place and from 
the Court into the Most Holy Place, as though it 
were only there that they were made perfect. ^ So 
in our Christian ritual, both the acts symbolized by 
.the Offertory and the Sanctus are now presented 
before the Father in union with ''the merits and 
death of His Son Jesus Christ." Together w^ith His 
Offering they make that "sacrifice of praise and 
thanksgiving" which alone is perfect in the eyes of 
the Father. And as we present It we make our 
prayers that It may avail for the benefit of the whole 
Church in general, and for ourselves in particular, 
that the Church may through Its mighty efficacy 
obtain remission of sins, and all other benefits of 

1 Morgan Dix, " The Sacramental System," p. 150. 

2 Lev. xvi. 12-15. 



3S ®ttcl)aristic ©ffering. 



Christ's Passion ; and that we, pardoned and for- 
given, may be made one body with Him, that He 
may dwell in us and we in Him. So the Church, 
by the prayers she puts on our lips, guards us 
against all unreality. Side by side with the blessed 
and unspeakable privilege of uniting in His precious 
pleading of the all-sufficient sacrifice once made on 
Calvary, she places the serious responsibility of 
making both soul and body a reasonable, holy, and 
living sacrifice unto GOD. We may not enjoy the 
luxury of the Eucharist without incurring the neces- 
sary stern and solemn obligations. 

[c) The Holy Com7nu7iion. — The very greatness 
of the effort we make to realize the act in which 
we are engaged makes us conscious of our weak- 
ness. We stagger and fall in our attempt to be 
one with that act which consummated a life of en- 
tire self-renunciation. The silent invitation to com- 
municate is a great relief. Awful as it is to come 
near to Him before whom angels veil their faces, 
it seems less so than pleading the Sacrifice without 
the gift of His supernatural Strength. With fear 
and wondering, but with a great 'hope, we draw near 
to receive that Gift Which will enable us to rise to 
that great devotion. And the Church as she places 
the Blessed Gifts in our hands does so with the 
solemn reminder, four times repeated, that it is sac- 
rificed Life we receive. 



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**The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was 
given for thee." 

" Eat this in remembrance that Christ died for 
thee." 

" The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was 
shed for thee." 

Drink this in remembrance that Christ's Blood 
was shed for thee." 

Sacrificed Life has but one movement, and that 
away from self and toward God and our neighbour. 
It is through an earnest and serioiis reception that 
we are enabled to carry the spirit of the Great 
Oblation we plead into the life of the home, the 
Church, and the world. 

n. The Thanksgiving. — All that we desired has 
been fulfilled. We have had our part both in the 
Life and in the presentation of the Offering of Jesus 
Christ. Nothing now remains but the duty of 
thanksgiving for blessings so rich and precious. 
This is expressed for us in the Lord's Prayer, in 
the Prayer of Thanksgiving, and in the Gloria iii 
Excelsis. 

The Lord's Prayer here as always sets the tone 
to the devotions which follow it, and now it fit- 
tingly leads our thanksgivings. We feel we cannot 
do better than use the very words He taught 
us. In the special Prayer of Thanksgiving we 



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recount the various blessings which are assured 
to us through " His precious Body and Blood." 
We are certified, beyond all possible doubt, of 
God's love and goodness tovv^ards us, of our mem- 
bership in the Body, and of inheritance in the 
coming Kingdom. Our chief desire is that we 
may stay where He has placed us, abide and 
continue in the holy fellowship into which we have 
been admitted, and do all such good works as GOD 
has made ready for us. 

The note of thanksgiving which has been rising 
higher and higher attains its full expression in the 
Gloria m Excelsis. Here we render every attribute 
of praise and honour that mind can suggest, to the 
Father, in Whose Presence we still stand clothed in 
the merits of the Death of Christ. ''God's Glory,'' 
for which we specially render thanks, was most 
chiefly displayed in the Passion : it shines forth, then, 
conspicuously in that service which celebrates it. 
For this we render hearty thanks. But though par- 
doned, and enriched with the Bread of Life, we feel 
as we face that "great glory " our own unworthiness, 
and our act of praise becomes a prayer for pity. No 
less than three times we beseech Him whose work 
it is to cleanse the world from sin to have mercy 
upon us. And as the assurance of His love again 
presses on us, we turn to Him, the Holiest amongst 
the Mightiest, the Mightiest amongst the Holiest, 



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with praise and worship, as being alone, with the 
Holy Ghost through whose blessed inspiration we 
have been enabled " to magnify God's Holy Name," 
most high in the glory of GOD the Father. 

III. The Benediction.— Our Sacrifice of Praise 
and Thanksgiving is now over. We have been 
admitted, with such gifts as we could bring, into 
the *' heavenly places," the innermost sanctuary 
of the Lord of Hosts. We have partaken of the 
Body and Blood of our Lord and been allowed to 
join with Him in the pleading of the merits of His 
death. Before we go back into the world again, He 
gives us through His Church His word of blessing. 
As on the day of His Ascension, before the cloud 
received Him out of their sight. He lifted up His 
hands and blessed them ; so now, before the inevi- 
table mists of earthly things arise to dim the vision 
we have enjoyed. He blesses us. The Peace of 
God of which we are assured might lead to pre- 
sumption, the Blessing we have received might be 
wasted. That the Peace may keep our minds in the 
knowledge and love of God, and that the Blessing — 
the unspeakable Gift of Life — may be amongst us 
lorever, is His last word for us. 



Before 

J^ofp Commmion 



Note. — The following method of preparation is intended 
rather as a guide than a form or office to be strictly adhered 
to. Its object is to suggest to those who have but little 
time to think them out for themselves some freshness of 
meaning to the familiar phrases in which our Church 
requires those who come to the Lord's Supper to examine 
themselves. As it is better not to confme the work of such 
an examination to one evening, it is suggested that the 
two first questions should be taken on Thursday, the third 
and fourth on Friday, the fifth and concluding devotions on 
Saturday. For those who communicate more often than 
once a week, an outline of Preparation is suggested on pp. 
68-69. 



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INSTRUCTIONS. 

How to prepare for the Holy Eucharist. — We 

have seen that the leading thought of the Service is Eu- 
charistic. We come to give most humble and hearty 
thanks to Almighty God, our heavenly Father, for that He 
hath given His Son our Saviour Jesus Christ not only to 
die for our sins, but also to be our spiritual food and 
sustenance. But we cannot do this alone. It is only 
through Christ and in union with His Oblation that we 
can offer up our Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving. 
We need Communion. This, then, is our aim — Eucharist 
through Communion. Are we looking forward to it with 
expectancy ? 

T. Have we a thankful remembrance of Christ's Death 
-^a full trust in God's mercy through Christ — feelings of 
charity towards our neighbour ? These are essential to a 
spirit of gratitude. 

2. Do we share His feelings about sin ? Are we de- 
sirous of living as He lived ? These are essential to our 
communion with Him. 

It will be better to be clear on this last point first, for 
every one will see how impossible it would be to plead 
the Sacrifice upon the Cross unless we are one with its 
spirit. We shall therefore begin our preparation by 
serious self-examination as to our thoughts, words, and 
deeds, and then suggest some help by which we may see 
whether we steadfastly purpose to lead a new life» 



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DEVOTIONS. 

PRAYER FOR AN EARNEST PREPARATION. 



ALMIGHTY Father, I desire in acknowledgment 
of the many and great blessings Thou hast given 
me, through Thy Son Jesus Christ, to join in offering to 
Thee that Memorial which He commanded us to make. 

I desire to offer It for Thine own honour, adoration, and 
glory, in remembrance of His Cross and Passion, and in 
thanksgiving for all the benefits procured thereby. 

And in union with it I desire to offer up all that I am 
or have, body, soul, and spirit, together wuth the praises 
of Thy Holy Church. Help me now by Thy Holy Spirit 
to make such preparation as may make me less unworthy 
to receive His blessed Body and Blood, Who is both Priest 
and Sacrifice. Help me to see my sins and grieve over 
them, but to see also the fulness of Thy mercy in Christ 
Jesus. 

Help me to be stirred and moved by the devout re- 
membrance of His Passion ; but grant that it may lead 
me to a more entire consecration, a more serious purpose 
to lead a new life in charity with all men. 

Hear me, O Father, for His sake. Amen. 




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INSTRUCTIONS. 

I. DO I REPENT ME TRULY OF MY FORMER SINS ? 

Self-Examination. — The answer to this is not so easy 
as we might at first imagine. Repentance means self- 
knowledge and shame. And for this we need the aid of 
the Holy Ghost, Whose work it is to convict of sin (John 
xvi. 1 8). Seek His aid in some such prayer as you will 
find on the page opposite, and then carefully think over 
these words of Archbishop Magee exhorting you to be 
definite : " Too many penitents content themselves with 
general acknowledgment of their sinfulness, while they 
shrink from the labour and pain of searching out each sin, 
and pondering upon its guilt, and bringing it distinctly 
and by name before GoD for pardon. Such persons will 
never have that deep and humbling sense of their own 
sinfulness which they ought to have. If you would be 
really penitent, you will call up each sin, one by one, for 
judgment, you will not hastily dismiss it from your mind, 
but you will examine it, and consider all the circum- 
stances of it, until you see all the guilt there was in it, 
and until you feel for it the shame and sorrow you ought 
to feel. You will confess it distinctly by name ; you will 
say to God, not merely, ' Father, I have sinned,' but 
' Father, I have done this evil, and this, and this too, 
in Thy sight : have mercy upon me, pardon me, and 
strengthen me against these sins in time to come.' " ' 



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DEVOTIONS. 

PRAYER TO THE HOLY GHOST FOR CONVICTION 
OF SIN. 

BLESSED Spirit of Truth, thou that searchest the 
heart and triest the reins, show me the evil and de- 
ceits of my own heart, that I may confess them truly with 
a contrite heart, hiding nothing, excusing nothing, and so 
may obtain m.ercy and pardon for them through Jesus 
Christ. 

PRAYER FOR CONTRITION. 

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest noth- 
ing that Thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins 
of all them that are penitent, create and make in me a 
new and contrite heart, that I worthily lamenting my sins, 
and acknowledging my wretchedness, may obtain of Thee, 
the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness, 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

EJACULATIONS. 

How many are mine iniquities and sins i Make me to 
know my transgression and my sin. — -yo^ xiii. 23. 

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn 
me : if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me per- 
verse.— yic?^^ ix. 20. 

I said, I will confess my sins unto the Lord, and so 
Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. — Ps. xxxii. 6. 

I will declare mine iniquity ; I will be sorry for my sin. 
— Ps. xxxviii. 18. 



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INSTRUCTIONS IN SELF-EXAMINATION. 

SINS OF THOUGHT. 
Thou understandest my thought afar off, 

Ps. cxxxix. 2. 

Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts. 

S. Matt. XV. 19. 

Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of 
Christ. 

2 Cor. X. 5. 

The word of God is living . . . and quick to dis- 
cern the thoughts and intents of the heart. 

Heb. iv. 12. 

"Your thoughts are making you. We are two men, 
each of us, what is seen and what is not seen. But tlie 
unseen is the maker of the other." (Bishop Steere.) 

*' What an unfathomable mystery of iniquity lies in 
these words, ' sins of thought ' ! What an awful power of 
sinning they attribute to man! For what is thought? 
It is the spirit life of man. The only idea we can have 
of the spirit within us is that it is something which thinks. 
Man is a being whose nature it is incessantly to think. 
In his waking hours his spirit is remembering, reasoning, 
reflecting, imagining ; thought follows thought like sparks 
from an anvil. Think, then, of the myriads of sins of 
thought which we must have committed. Think of this 
awful facility of sinning over and over again, in thought, 
the deadliest and foulest sins ; and then multiply all these 
sins of commission by those of omission ; remember that 
each evil and impure imagination has usurped the place 
of some good and holy one, and that every such usurpa- 
tion is sin." (Archbishop Magee.) 



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SELF-EXAMINATION ON SINS OF THOUGHT. 

Sins of Omission. — Have I missed any opportunity of 
purifying my thoughts ? Have I learnt any Scripture 
with a view to filling in those times when I have nothing 
to tTiink about ? Am I sanctifying all my thought, whether 
of study or business, by prayer at its beginning and close? 
Have I injured any one directly or indirectly by want of 
thought? Have I omitted using any of the helps God 
has given me, through meditation or books, for knowing 
more about God and my spiritual destiny ? Have I 
omitted thinking carefully about the expenditure of the 
money, time, or other blessings He has given to my stew- 
ardship ? Have I omitted thinking before praying, re- 
buking, or praising ? 

Sins of Commission.-— Have I excited or encouraged 
unworthy thoughts of GoD or uncharitable thoughts of 
men ? Have I tried to think the best of others ? Have 
I allowed pain or weariness to make me think much of 
myself ? Have I given way to dreaminess, castle build- 
ing, foolish or impure imaginations, covetous thoughts, 
aepression ? Have I spoiled my Sunday devotion by 
reading anything that makes it hard to believe in God's 
goodness or man's possibilities ? 

DEVOTIONS. 

After examination say the following: 

ALMIGHTY Father, I, an unworthy sinner, yet 
redeemed by the precious Blood of Thy Son Jesus 
Christ, plead before Thee all the holy thoughts of His 
life upon earth, when for us men and for our salvation 
He was made man. And, O most merciful Father, for 
His sake, I pray Thee to pardon all my sins in thought 
{espec. . , . ) which since my last Communion I 
have entertained against Thy will, or caused others to 
entertain. Amen. 



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INSTRUCTIONS IN SELF-EXAMINATION. 
SINS OF WORD. 

Contemptuous language condemned. 

Whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in dan- 
ger of the council. — S. Matt. v. 22. 
Malicious words condemned. 

Whosoever shall say. Thou fool, shall be in danger of 
hell fire. — S. Matt. v. 22. 
Trifling gossip condemned. 

Every idle word that men shall speak., they shall give ac- 
count thereof in the day of judgment. — S. Matt. xii. 36. 
Irreverence condemned. 

Let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God. 
— Eccles. V. 2. 
Timidity rebuked. 

Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace. — Acts 
xviii. 9. 
Hastiness forbidden. 
Be slow to speak. 

"Now, by the aid of the Holy Ghost, try to reckon up 
the sins of the tongue, only less in number than those of 
the heart. Think of the profane exclamation, the scoff- 
ing speech, the irreverent jest, the cruel slander, the half- 
hinted calumny, the unkind insinuation, the uncharitable 
misconstruction, the bitterness and the wrath and the 
clamour of evil-speaking ; think of the taunt and the re- 
proach and the angry retort and the fierce recrimination ; 
think of the deliberate falsehood, and the half-lies and the 
deceitful pretences and the suppression of truth and the 
glaring flatteries and smooth hollow compliments of soci- 
ety ; think of ' the foolish talking and jesting that are 
not convenient,' the light, trifling, frivolous conversations 
that fill up so many leisure hours ; . . . and add to all 
these the sins of omission, and so try to form an idea of 
all the world of iniquity that lies in the tongue, and of 
the myriad sins of the tongue you must have committed." 



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SELF-EXAMINATION ON SINS OF WORD. 

Omission. — Have I refused, from cowardice or false 
shame, to speak out for God and His Church ? Have I 
omitted prayers because I was tired ? to speak kindly 
because I was hurried ? Have I neglected warning those 
I knew to be in danger? Have I failed to give encour- 
agement when it was needed ? 

Commission. — Have I prayed listlessly, without en- 
ergy ? Have I been hasty or unreal in what I have said 
to God ? Have I quoted God's word irreverently ? Have 
I spoken evil of my parents, and those in authority ? or 
irritably to my equals, dependents, or servants ? Have 
I deliberately said what I did not mean, to gain favor? 
Have I repeated a story against any one when not obliged ? 
If I have injured any one's character, have I tried to clear 
it? Have I spoken for God or the Church without 
meekness and fear? Have I murmured, made others un- 
happy by discontented words? Have I spoken about 
myself without occasion ? claimed powers and successes 
without giving God the glory ? 



DEVOTIONS. 

Jio, there is not a 7uord in ?ny tongue, but thou, Lord^ 
knowest it altogether. — Ps. cxxxix. 3. 

ALMIGHTY Father, I, an unworthy sinner, yet re- 
deemed by the precious Blood of Thy dear Son, call 
to Thy remembrance all the holy words which for us men 
and for our salvation, He spake upon earth. And O 
most merciful God, I pray Thee from my inmost heart 
that Thou wilt, for His sake, pardon me all the evil words 
{espec. . , .), which, since my last Communion, I have 
uttered against Thy will, or caused others to utter. Amen. 



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INSTRUCTIONS IN SELF-EXAMINATION. 

SINS OF DEED. 

Profession without action worthless. 

Not every one that saiih tinto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter 
into the Kingdom of LLeaven, but he that doeth the will 
of my Father which is in LLeaven. — S. Matt. vii. 21. 
Knowledge without action unblessed. 

Lf ye know these things, happy ai'e ye if ye do them. — 
S. John xiii. 17. 
Noble deeds the purpose of our creation. 

We are LLis workmaitship, created iit Christ Jesus unto 
good works, — Eph. ii. 10. 

Remember the power of habit, which grace alone can 
change, expressed in the words : 

"■ Our ill deeds travel v/ith us from afar, 
And what we have been makes us what we are." 



If a man knows the law but does not do thereafter, it had 
been better for him that he had not come into the world. 
( fe wish Saying. ) 

"Think not merely of those grosser deeds of shame 
which you may have done, but of those seemingly lighter 
sins which so easily escape our notice. Think of all the 
talents you have misused — of the time you have wasted, 
the health you have lost, the money you have squandered, 
the intellect you have misapplied, the influence you have 
abused. And think of the fearful list of sins of omis- 
sion that come under this head — the means of grace re- 
jected, the Table of the Lord deserted, the assembly of 
the Lord forsaken, the Word unstudied, the prayer un- 
said, the alms withheld. Think, in one word, of all you 
might and ought to have done to glorify God and help 
your fellow men, and did not." (Archbishop Magee.) 



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SELF-EXAMINATION ON SINS OF DEED. 

Sins of Omission. — Have I omitted any habit of 
devotion — Self-examination. i\I editation, Prayer, Thanks- 
giving, Praise ? any customary attentions and duties to 
any member of my family — husband, wife, parents, 
children, etc, ? any opportunity God gave me of helping 
others in my profession, business, or trade? 

Have I done my daily task imperfectly, through indo- 
lence, discontent, thoughtlessness, or forgetfulness of 
God's Presence ? Am I living according to rule, in my 
devotions, almsgiving, and daily habits? Have I, through 
love of ease, rejected the wholesome discipline of the 
Church provided in her days of fasting and abstinence ? 
through worldliness, disregarded the stimulus of her Fes- 
tivals ? through idle curiosity, failed to realize God's 
Presence in the Sanctuary ? 

Sins of Commission. — Have I spoiled my spiritual life 
by self-indulgence in eating or drinking or by any form of 
unchastity ? Have I made faith difficult by living in a 
worldly atmosphere ? Have I behaved irreverently in the 
House of God ? Plave I injured any one directly or 
indirectly? Have I defrauded any individual or corpora- 
tion? If so, have T made the satisfaction that was possi- 
ble ? Have I wasted my health of body or mind, my 
money, or any gift He has given me, by using them 
wrongfully ? 

DEVOTIONS. 

ALMIGHTY Father, I, an unworthy sinner, yet re- 
deemed by the precious Blood of Thy dear Son, 
call to thy remembrance all the holy deeds which for us 
men and for our salvation He worked upon earth. And 
O most merciful God, I pray Thee from my inmost heart 
that Thou wilt pardon, for His sake, all the evil deeds 
{espec. . .) which, since my last Communion, I have 
done against Thy w^ill, or caused others to do. Amen. 



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INSTRUCTIONS IN SELF-EXAMINATION. 

II. HAVE I A LIVELY FAITH IN GOD'S MERCY 
THROUGH CHRIST ? 

If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our hearty 
and knoweth all things. — S. John iii. 20. 

Through His Name, whosoever believeth in Him shall 
receive remission of sins. — Acts x. 43. 

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that 
believeth. — S. Mark ix. 23. 

Whefefore lift up the hands which hang dow?i, and the 
feeble knees, and draw near with a true heart in full 
assurance of faith. — Heb. xii. 12 ; x. 22. 

By God's help, we have now some knowledge of our- 
selves ; some shame and hatred of that which spoils, if it 
does not hinder our fellowship with Christ. The sight of 
our own sins, committed of our owniree will, when away 
of escape was provided, would lead us to despair were it 
not for the^ promise of God's mercy. Though we have 
sinned, God has not " appointed us to wrath, but to obtain 
salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ." In this mercy, 
we are now called upon to make an act of faith. The 
Church asks for a full trust, not a hope that He 7nay, but 
a confidence that He will, " forgive us all that is past." If 
we are without it, it is our privilege to seek out some 
Minister of God's word, and open our grief, that by the 
benefit of absolution, together with ghostly counsel and 
advice, our conscience may be quieted. But, further, a 
" full trust " involves something more than a passive 
assurance of God's forgiveness ; it is a firm persuasion 
that all the discipline He sends us is given in m^ercy 
rather than in anger, is a proof of the visitation of His 
gracious goodness and not simply of His heavenly dis- 
pleasure. Recall, then, everything you have found hard 
or suffered, since your last Communion, and offer it up in 
union with His Sacrifice. 



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SELF-EXAMINATION ON THE SIN OF 
UNBELIEF. 

Do I believe that in spite of all I have done or left 
undone. God will give me, on my hearty repentance, 
pardon, refreshment, fellowship, and love through His 
Son? Am I glad to be in His Hands? Do I rejoice in 
the thought of being His child ? Am I willing to let Him 
do with me what He wills ? Am I taking those trials of 
my life He sends me — dulness, v/eariness, distractions, 
loneliness, misunderstandings, pain, etc. — as being for my 
profit, that I may be a partaker of His Holiness ? {^Heb. 
xii. 10.) 

DEVOTIONS. 

OMY God, I confess to Thee my many sins of unbe- 
lief {espec. . . .), and humbly pray Thee to for- 
give them, for Christ's sake. Amen. 

ACT OF FAITH IN GOD'S PARDON. 

ALMIGHTY God and Heavenly Father, my trust is 
in Thy mercy, through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our 
Saviour. 1 believe that Thou forgivest all who with 
hearty repentance and true faith turn unto Thee. I come 
to Thee in full assurance that by His word of Absolution 
all my sins will be blotted out. Grant me, for His sake, 
Thy perfect peace. Amen. 

ACT OF TRUST IN GOD'S LOVE. 

HEAVENLY Father, I offer up to Thee all that I 
now suffer {espec. . . . ), or may have to suffer, to be 
united to the sufferings of my Saviour, and to be purified 
and perfected by His Passion. Help me to follow in the 
steps of His perfect obedience ; and grant that my humble 
and cheerful service and self-surrender may be perfumed 
by the incense of His merits, and so become an offering 
of a sweet savour unto Thee, for Jesus' sake. Amen. 



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INSTRUCTIONS IN SELF-EXAMINATION. 

III. HAVE I A STEADFAST PURPOSE TO LEAD A 
NEW LIFE? 

Can two walk together^ except they be agreed? — Amos 
iii. 3. 

' ' Foi'getting those things which are behind^ and reaching 
forth unto those thiitgs which are before, I press toward 
the mark." — Phil. iii. 13. 

We are now able to look forward with confidence ; and 
as we think of the Sacrificed Life we are about to plead 
before the Father, as well as receive into ourselves, we 
ask one more question. Have we a steadfast purpose to 
lead a new life — to walk as He walked ? Are we in 
sympathy with the great Renunciation and the willing 
obedience which marked His Life ? It would be a 
heartless mockery to go forward to receive His Sacrificed 
Life — the Body w^hich was given for us, the Blood 
which was shed for us — while intending to abide in 
the old selfish life. Look, then, at the Commandments 
in the light of His Perfect Example. Consider in what 
special direction your life ought to move. If nothing is 
plainly suggested, use the petition of the Collect for the 
day,-" and if you have time read over the Epistle, which 
not seldom enforces the thought of the Collect, and see 
how our Lord comes forward in the Gospel to meet your 
need. 



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JESUS CHRIST THE INCARNATION OF 
THE LAW. 

" The Law stands before us, with its revelation of 
righteousness, as a faithful and resplendent mirror, in 
which we may behold, without any danger of delusion or 
mistake, the perfect image of that excellence which we 
should be ever yielding to GoD." 

He thai followeth Me shall not walk in the darkness^ but 
shall have the light of life. — S. John viii. 12. 

For this is the love of Gody that we keep his command- 
ments : a7td His commandments are not gj'ievous. — i S. 
John v. 3. 

He that keepeth His commandments dwelleth in Him, 
and He in him. — i S. John iii. 24. 

COMMANDMENT I. 

Sin^leheartedness. — This binds us to never forget 
the unseen Father in the activities of the present ^ Real- 
ize the wholeheartedness of Christ — for Him there is but 
One Master of his time (S. John ii. 4) ; but one Estimate 
of things (S. John v. 30) ; but one Source of power and 
influence (S. John v. 30) ; but one Standard of perfection 
(S. Matt. V. 48) ; and the consciousness of His abiding 
Presence is always felt, whether in the wedding feast, in 
the public street, on the mountain side, in the Temple, 
or on the Hill of shame. 

COMMANDMENT II. 

Spiritual Courage. — This binds us to a brave con- 
tentment with an invisible God. Realize the patient 
courage of the Lord in the difficulties of life. Thirty 
years in the dry ground of Nazareth excites no complaint ; 
physical exhaustion only moves him to assert that "man 
shall not live by bread alone ; " the burden of the world^s 
sin is borne by the prayer, Not my will, but Thine be 



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done ; " want of success in work, by thankfulness (vS. Matt, 
xi. 25) ; the extremest spiritual desolation, by unfailing 
loyalty, '*My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken 
me? " 

COMMANDMENT III. 

Reverence to God's Name. — This binds us to intel- 
lectual devotion to the Name of God zvherever expressed. 
Mark the attitude of our Lord to God's Name. The 
first petition in His Prayer — Hallowed be Thy Name ; 
the one Book quoted in temptation, argument, conflict — 
that in which the Father's Name is revealed ; the one 
House that possessed a stronger attraction than His own 
home — that which bore His Father's Name ; the one act 
that most deeply stirred His anger — irreverence to that 
Name ; the one posture emphasized — that of outward 
devotion to that Name, ^' He kneeled down a7id prayed ^ 

COMMANDMENT IV. 

Devotion. — This binds us to the devotion of labour and 
the labour of devotion. In labour we see One " never 
diverted from His work, never losing its clue, never im- 
patient, never out of heart, Who cries not, nor strives, 
nor makes haste ; " One Whose meat was to do the will 
of Him that sent Him. 

In devotion we see One Whose custom it was to go into 
the synagogue on the Sabbath day (S. Luke iv. 16) ; Who 
attended the Feasts of the Church (S. John vii. to) ; Who 
used the best parts of the day for devotion (S. Mark i. 35) ; 
Who spent the night in prayer (S. Luke vi. 12), 

COMMANDMENT V. 

Filial Piety. — This binds us not only to love^ honour, 
and succour our father and mother, but to honour and obey 
all in authority ^ and to order ourselves lozuly and revej'" 
ently to all our betters. 



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Though filled with the joy of His Father's House, He 
went home to practise willing and lowly submission to 
His parents in despised Nazareth ; though enduring the 
agony of the Cross, He thinks of His mother and friend ; 
though rejected, He bade His disciples submit themselves 
to the authority of the Jewish Church ; though unjustly 
tried by them, He respected the civil and ecclesiastical 
courts. 

COMMANDMENT VI. 

Honour. — This hinds us to reverence all meji^ to hurt 
nobody by word nor deed. See the respect of Christ for 
those beyond the limits of His own nation, for the haughty 
Roman, the degraded Canaanite, and the bitter Samaritan. 
Note what high praise He gives to the Roman officer and 
the Canaanitish mother, and how when wearied He spends 
time with the sinful woman. Mark His consideration 
for poverty and all forms of weakness, in His care for the 
poor. His patient dealing with the disciples' dulness. His 
blessing and prayers for little children. Consider His 
reverence for all sickness or disease, shown in the loving 
touch and the word of comfort ; and His regard for the 
social outcasts, manifested by His entering their houses, 
speaking in their behalf, calling one of them as a disciple. 

COMMANDMENT VH. 

Self-Control. — This binds us to reme7jtber the sacred- 
ness of the body; to keep it in tenipe^'ance^ soberness, and 
chastity. In Jesus, we see One Who was always strong, 
over Whose quiet strength no bodily want could cast a 
shadow. Exhausted from want of food, He replies : "Man 
shall not live by bread alone." Agonized by thirst, He yet 
receives the poor attempt to relieve it. Confronted with 
coarseness, He refuses to hear, remains silent and averts 
His eyes. Overwearied with a long day's work, He yet 
rises a great while before the dawn for prayer. 



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COMMANDMENT VIII. 

Honesty. — Tkis binds us to be true and just in all our 
dealings. How scrupulously careful was our Lord of the 
rights of others. He yielded His own rights in public 
matters lest He should give offence (S. Matt, xviii. 27). 
He paid men what He never took, healing all manner of 
disease without charge. He taught men faith, by taking 
to Himself a family of twelve without any other provision 
than that which His Father gave Him. He checked im- 
patience, the root of dishonesty, by forbidding His disci- 
ples to look beyond the day, and by His own example, He 
taught men that it was better to starve than to use entrusted 
powers selfishly. 

COMMANDMENT IX. 

Truthfulness. — This binds us to keep our tongues from 
evil speaking, lyings and slandering. He it is, the Judge 
of men, who says, " I judge no man ; " Who never judged 
before hearing the verdict above ; Who never passed judg- 
ment on man or thing for private ends (S. John v. 30) ; Who 
bore merciful witness of publicans and sinners, and wit- 
nessed a beautiful confession before Pontius Pilate. By 
word and example He teaches us not to exceed Yea, yea, 
Nay, nay, and not to judge others, lest we ourselves be 
judged with the same measure we mete to them. 

COMMANDMENT X. 

Contentment. — This binds us to learn ijt whatever state 
we are placed therewith to be content. Our Lord was con- 
tent, though He had no place where He could lay His 
Head, though His friends were poor and simple, though 
His home was in a hidden and despised village ; though 
His love for the men of Bethsaida and Capernaum was 
imreturned, and His words so often misunderstood. " I 
thank Thee, Father," is the spirit of His life. 



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DEVOTIONS. 

A fter reading through the Com^jiandments ^ in the light 
of our Lord^s life, say : 

OLORD Jesus Christ, Who hast given us in Thy Law 
Hght to walk as Thou didst walk, and in Thy Blessed 
Sacrament strength to follow in Thy steps, confirm my 
purpose to lead a new life. 

Remembering Thy Hidden Life of devotion, I pray 
Thee to help me to love the Father with all my heart, 
soul, mind, and strength ; to believe in Him more stead- 
fastly, and to fear Him more reverently; to worship Him 
more earnestly, and to thank Him more sincerely ; to 
confide in Him more fully, and to call upon Him more 
faithfully ; to honour His Holy Name and His Word more 
devoutly, and to serve Him more truly all the days of my 
life. 

Remembering Thy Home Life, I pray Thee give me 
grace to love, honour, and succour my parents and all 
those to whom I am bound by ties of relationship 
{espec, . . .), and to honour and obey all those whom 
Thou hast set over me, whether in Church or State. 

Remembering Thy Life in the world, I pray Thee to 
keep me from hurting any one by word or deed, and to 
help me to be true and just in all my dealing, never bear- 
ing malice nor hatred in my heart. 

Remembering Thy Life of Self-discipline, Thy fastings 
and labours, help me to keep my body in temperance, 
soberness, and chastity, and to labour truly to get my own 
living, when and where Thou dost call me. 

Remembering Thy Life of constant delight in Thy 
Father's will, help me neither to covet nor desire other 
men's goods, but to learn in whatever state I am therewith 
to be content. Amen. 



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INSTRUCTIONS IN SELF-EXAMINATION. 

IV. HAVE I A THANKFUL REMEMBRANCE OF 
CHRIST'S DEATH? 

Let ihem give thanks whom the Lord hath redee7}ied and 
delivered from the hand of the enemy. — Ps. cvii. 2. 

Having prepared ourselves for Communion with our 
Lord, we now seek to enter into the meaning of that x\ct, 
which is the ultimate end of our fellowship with Him. 
He makes us one with Himself that we may with Him 
glorify the Father. Have we, then, a thankful remem- 
brance of that great Act by which He glorified the Father? 
(S.John xvii. i.) Does it occupy, in our minds, the supreme 
place it has in the Gospels and the Creeds ? Is it our 
chief and only boast ? the foundation of our hope ? If 
you have time, read some part of the story of the Pas- 
sion ; seek by the aid of the Holy Spirit to realize some- 
thing of its cost and meaning. Remember your own 
share in its blessings. " Christ died for thee. His Blood 
was shed for thee." These are the words the Church 
charges you not to forget. 

Then bring " the record of the undying power of Christ's 
death up to date in your own life." ^ All the blessings 
you have received and still enjoy are yours in consequence 
of His death. You will here recall any recent national or 
Church blessings ; any particular spiritual good you have, 
since your last Communion, received through the Church, 
the Word of God or His Sacraments ; any other blessings 
received in the home — through friends and books. You 
will also thank Him, as S. Paul did, for the spiritual 
growth of those you are related to or interested in,'^ for 
the earthly blessings given to them. And as these pass 
before your mind your heart will be full of thanksgiving. 



1 Carter, " Preparation for Worship,'" p. 45. 

2 Phil. i. 3. Philem. 4. i Cor. i. 4. 



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SELF-EXAMINATION ON THE SIN OF 
INGRATITUDE. 

Has the Death of Christ constrained me to give up any 
one sin, or to do one act of unselfishness? Do I believe 
that without It I should have no hope for myself or for 
any whom I love ? Have I tried to realize any part of the 
Passion? — the pain of the scourging and crucifixion ; the 
shame of being treated as one accursed (Gal. iii. 13) ; 
the loneliness when forsaken by all His friends ; the deso- 
lation which found vent in the terrible cry, My God, My 
God, why hast Thou forsaken me ? Have I acted as 
though all the good I have known was entirely due to His 
Death and Passion ? 

DEVOTIONS. 

OMY God, I confess to Thee my many sins of ingrat- 
itude and coldness of heart {espec. . . ). Forgive 
them, for Christ's sake, and help me to realize with increas- 
ing devotion the love shown in His Passion. Amen. 

(1) Say some hymn on the Passion, I adore Thee, O 
Christ, and I bless Thee, because by Thy Cross and pre- 
cious Blood Thou hast redeemed the world. 

(2) Praye7' of General Thanksgiving. Almighty GoD. 
Father of all mercies, etc. 

(3) Almighty and everlasting God, Who, of Thy tender 
love towards mankind, hast sent Thy Son, our Saviour 
Jesus Christ, to take upon Him our flesh, and to suffer 
death upon the Cross ; Grant that His wonderful suffer- 
ings may show me the grievousness of my sins and the 
punishment due to them, while they give me comfort in 
showing me the ground of my hope ; that so putting my 
whole trust in Him Who is the Sacrifice and Ransom for 
our sin, I may enter into the fellowship of His sufferings, 
and, dying unto the world, may live evermore with Him, 
my Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Amen. 



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INSTRUCTIONS IN SELF-EXAMINATION. 

V. AM I IN CHARITY WITH ALL MEN ? 

If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest 
that thy brother hath ought against thee ; leave there thy 
gift before the altar ^ and go thy way ; first be reconciled 
to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. — S. 
Matt. V. 23, 24. 

There is now but one thing that can spoil our sacrifice 
of praise and thanksgiving, and that is the sin of un- 
charitableness. Unless we are, so far as may be, at peace 
with our brethren, we cannot go forward to offer our gift. 

Our Lord's words here are precise. If we should be 
so unhappy as to have wronged a brother, we must go our 
way and first be reconciled with him before offering our gift- 
Reconciliation is not always possible, but we are to do our 
utmost to make it so. Let us look up at the Cross and 
see how He preaches peace. To those who were crucify- 
ing Him, He gives His prayers ; to him who after long 
rejection was turning back at che eleventh hour, He gives 
fellowship and Paradise ; to those who had followed and 
loved Him, He gave all He had. Pray, then, for your 
enemies ; give again the hand of fellowship to him who 
seeks your love ; and on your friends bestow your very 
best. 

Charity is not a passive but an active virtue. It is the 
spirit of giving. The question, "Am I in charity with 
all men ? " means. Am I striving to do all I can to bless 
all with whom I come into contact? (See i Cor. xiii.) 



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SELF-EXAMINATION ON THE SIN OF 
UNCHARITABLENESS. 

Beloved, if God so loved us, zve ought also to love one 
another. — i S. John iv. ii. 

Let us not love in word, neither ijt tongue, but in deed 
and in truth. — I S. John iii. i8. 

Is there any one with whom I am out of charity ? Is 
the cause entirely his ? Have I done all I could to gain 
him ; ^. ^. , by a letter, a friend, a gift ? Am I praying to 
be one with him ? Do I realize that he is as dear to Christ 
as I am ? When others with whom I am associated are 
overtaken in a fault, have I remembered that the spirit of 
meekness is the secret of their restoration ? (Gal. vi. i.) 
Have I considered the difiBculties of others — education, 
surroundings, etc., and how I should have acted had I been 
placed in their circumstances ? Have I tried to realize 
the intimate closeness of the bond that unites all those 
who eat of the same Bread and drink of the same Cup ? 
Am I waiting for others to make the first step ? Is my 
forgiveness after the pattern of God's forgiveness ? (S. 
Luke XV. 20-24.) Is my life becoming more like His 
Life — one of giving rather than getting ? 

DEVOTIONS, 

OLORD, Who hast taught us that all our doings with- 
out charity are nothing worth ; Send Thy Holy Ghost, 
and pour into my heart that most excellent gift of charity, 
the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which 
whosoever liveth is counted dead before Thee. Grant 
this for Thine only Son Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. 

From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitable- 
ness, Good Lord, deliver me. 

May it please Thee in Thy mercy to forgive my enemies, 
persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts. 

5 



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CONCLUDING PRAYERS. 

I. PREPARATION FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD 

IN THE WORD OF THE GOSPEL. 

• May the foimtain of the Gospel Jill us with the Doctj'ine 
of Heave7i. Amen. 

I PRAISE and magnify Thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, 
from the very depths of my heart for the comforting 
doctrine of Thy Gospel. Blessed be Thy sacred lips and 
most gracious tongue, with which Thou didst so often 
express the delight of the heavenly life, and commend 
to us the counsels of eternal truth. Grant me, most lov- 
ing Jesus, Thou best of Masters, that I may with a holy 
thirst drink from the streams of Thy saving teaching. 
May I diligently study, wisely understand, and peacefully 
enjoy the sacred words of Thy mouth, and carefully fash- 
ion all my discipline according to their guidance. Amen. 

II. PREPARATION FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD 

IN THE WORD OF ABSOLUTION. 

By the words of God's Gospel be our sins blotted out. 
Amen. 

JESUS, King of Heaven, Who alone art Holy and 
True, Who hath the Key of David, Who openeth 
and no man shutteth, look down upon me with the eyes 
of Thy compassion and mercy. Raise me, sunk in of- 
fences ; enlighten me, sitting in darkness ; loose me, tied 
and bound by the chain of sins, that I may serve Thee 
henceforth with a quiet mind. Amen. 



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III. PREPARATION FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD 
IN THE HOLY SACRAMENT. 

Christ, give its the joys of everlasting life. Amen. 

JESU, most benign, Who exhortest us to receive Thee, 
saying. " My Flesh is meat indeed, and My Blood is 
drink indeed ; " and " Except ye eat the Flesh of the Son 
of Man, and drink His Blood, ye have no life in you 
Have mercy upon me, that I may worthily eat this Bread 
and drink this Cup, so that I hunger no more, neither 
thirst any more, nor die eternally. 

Jesu, most merciful, Whom Zacchaeus received with joy 
into his house, and Whom the centurion, out of reverence, 
did not dare to invite under his roof, Have mercy upon me, 
that I may ever combine the feelings of them both, love and 
fear, whensoever I receive Thee into my house. Amen. 

O Lord our God, Who hast called us Christians after 
the Name of Thine Only Begotten Son, and hast given 
us Baptism in the Font for the remission of sins ; make 
me, I beseech Thee, worthy now to receive this Com- 
munion for the remission of my sins, and to glorify Thee 
with thanksgiving. Amen. 

With perpetual benediction may the Father everlasting 
bless me. Amen. 

God, the Son of God, vouchsafe to bless and aid me. 
Amen. 

May the grace of the Holy Ghost enlighten me, heart 
and body. Amen. 



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OUTLINE OF SHORT FORM OF PREPARATION. 

I. Your Intention. — First, be clear why you are go- 
ing to the Holy Eucharist. Is it to thank God for some 
spiritual blessing to the world, the Church, or your own 
soul ? For the example and influence of some saint ? For 
some earthly blessing given to you or those dear to you ? 

Or is it to ask for some much-needed mercy for the 
Church, yourself, or any one in whom you are specially 
interested ? 

Or is it simply for the glory of GoD ? 

Having realized your intention, state it in a few simple 
words, such as : 

ALMIGHTY FATHER, I desire in acknowledgment 
of the many and great blessings Thou hast given us 
in Thy Son Jesus Christ to join in offering to Thee that 
Memorial He commanded us to make. But specially I 
desire to offer It for {Jiere state your intention). In Thy 
loving mercy, accept It for His sake, by and through 
Whom It is offered. Amen. 

II. Your Need. — {a) Sympathy with the Mind of 
Christ. As you can only offer It in union with our Lord, 
endeavour earnestly, by the aid of the Holy Ghost, to 
discover what there is in your life preventing fellowship 
with Him. 

What has your life towards God been ? Your prayers, 
Bible reading, meditation, worship ? 

What has your life towards man been ? Thoughts, 
words, deeds ? Think of what you have read; whom you 
have seen ; what you said ; what you have done ; your 
daily business, duty, etc., and how you did it ; what you 
ought to have done, and why you did not do it ? Has the 
spirit of your life been that of thankfulness, cheerful con- 
tentment ? Theji say: 



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1 CONFESS to Thee, Almighty God, Lord of Heaven 
and earth, that I have sinned against Thee in thought, 
word, and deed (espec, . . .) ; and I pray Thee for 
Jesus Christ's sake to forgive me all ray sins, both those 
which I have confessed and those which I cannot now 
remember. Amen. 

{d) Peace with God and Man. — You cannot offer, if for 
any reason you distrust the Father. A " full trust " and 
"a quiet conscience'' are essential. Distinguish, how- 
ever, between distrust and want of joy or sensible assur- 
ance. There is nothing necessarily wrong in the latter, 
often caused by ill-health, weariness, etc., and the Holy 
Communion is its best remedy. 

Make the acts of Faith and Trust on p. 55. 
Nor can you offer if, through your own fault, you are 
out of charity with any one. If such should be the case, 
ask our Lord to tell you what to do, and do it at once. 

Make some act of love to your neighbour, or say the 
Prayer on p. 65. 

[c) Gratitude for the Death of Christ.— \t is the sacrifice 
of the Death of Christ that you Hft up with thanksgiv- 
ing. Think a little of what it means— as a great vic- 
tory over evil (Col. ii. 14, 15). a marvellous act of Love 
(Rom. v. 8), or a Work of Reconciliation (Rom. v. 10, 11). 
Remember that without It w^e should be lost and hopeless. 

Express your gratitude and love in the words of some 
Hymn on the Passion, or some Prayer. (See p. 63.) 

III. Your Help.— Our Lord comes to give you His 
Body and His Blood that you may be sacramentally one 
with Him in the presentation of His great Oblation. Pray 
that the Word of the Gospel may dwell in you richly, that 
the Word of Absolution may cleanse you from all sin, that 
the Blessed Gift of His Sacrificed Life may strengthen 
and refresh your whole being. 

Say the Prayers on pp. 66, 67, or one of the Eucharistic 
Hymns. 



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PREPARATION ON THE MORNING OF RECEPTION. 

On ordinary occasions, Psalm Ixxxiv. 
During Penitential seasons, Psalm cxxx. 
On Saints' Days, Psalm xv. 

{^From ancient sources.) 

Lord, have mercy upon us. 
Christ, have mercy upon us. 
Lord, have mercy upon us. 

QUR Father. 

y And lead us not into temptation. 

But deliver us from evil. 
^ I said, Lord, have mercy upon me. 
I\7 Heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee. 
T Turn Thee again, O Lord, at the last. 
R7 And be gracious unto Thy servants. 
Y Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be showed upon us. 

As we do put our trust in Thee. 
^ Let Thy Priests be clothed with righteousness. 

And let Thy Saints sing with joyfulness. 
y Cleanse Thou me from my secret faults. 

And keep Thy servant also from presumptuous sins. 
^ O Lord, hear my prayer. 

And let my cry come unto Thee. 

Lei us pray : 

MOST Gracious God, incline Thy merciful ears to our 
prayers, and enlighten our hearts by the grace of Thy 
Holy Spirit ; that we may worthily approach Thy Holy 
Mysteries, and love Thee with an everlasting love. 

O Lord, we beseech Thee, may the Comforter Who 
proceedeth from Thee illuminate our minds, and lead us, 
as Thy Son hath promised, into all truth. 

O Lord, we beseech I'hee, may the power of the HOLY 



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Ghost be with us, and both mercifully cleanse and purge 
our hearts, and defend us from all adversities. 

Cleanse our consciences, we beseech Thee, O Lord, by 
Thy visitation : that Thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ, 
when He cometh, may find in us a mansion prepared for 
Himself ; through the Same Thy Son Jesus Christ our 
Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the Unity 
of the Same Spirit, ever One God, world without end. 
Amen. 

Almighty and Everlasting God, behold I approach the 
Sacrament of Thy Only-Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus 
Christ. As one sick, I come to the Physician of life : as 
unclean, to the Fountain of mercy : as blind, to the Light 
of eternal splendour; as needy, to the Lord of Heaven 
and earth. I implore therefore the abundance of Thine 
Infinite Majesty, that Thou wouldest vouchsafe to heal 
my sickness, to wash my foulness, to lighten my dark- 
ness, to enrich my poverty, and to clothe my nakedness, 
that I may receive the Bread of Aiigels, the King of 
Kings, and Lord of Lords, with such reverence and 
fear, such contrition and love, such faith and purity, 
such devotion and humility, as is expedient for the wel- 
fare of my soul. Grant me, I beseech Thee, to receive 
not only the Sacrament of the Lord's Body and Blood, 
but also the virtue of the Sacrament. O most Merci- 
ful God, grant me so. to receive the Body of Thy Only- 
Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Which He took 
of the Virgin Mary, that I may be incorporated in His 
mystical Body and reckoned among His members ; and 
so to drink His Blood, that my soul may be washed from 
every stain of sin. And O most loving Father, grant 
me that Him Whom I now desire to receive beneath a 
veil, I may hereafter behold for ever with unveiled face, 
even Thy beloved Son Who liveth and reigneth with Thee 
in the Unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever. 
Amen. 



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YE royal priests of Jesus, rise, 
And join tiie Daily Sacrifice ; 
Join all believers in His Name 
To offer up the spotless Lamb. 

Your meat and your drink offerings throw 
On Him Who suffered once below, 
But ever lives with God above 
To plead for us His dying love. 

"Whate'er we cast on Him alone 
Is with His great Oblation one ; 
His sacrifice doth ours sustain, 
And favour and acceptance gain. 

On Him Who all our burdens bears, 
W^e cast our praises and our prayers ; 
Ourselves we offer up to God, 
Implunged in His atoning Blood. 

Mean are our noblest offerings, 
Poor, feeble, unsubstantial things ; 
But when to Him our souls we lift, 
The Altar sanctifies the gift. 

Our persons and our deeds aspire 
When cast into that hallowed fire, 
Our most imperfect efforts please 
When joined to Christ our Righteousness. 

Mixed with the sacred smoke we rise. 

The smoke of His Burnt-Sacrifice, 

By the Eternal Spirit driven 

From earth, in Christ, we mount to heaven. 

From " Hymns on the Lord'^s Slipper " 
by J. and C. Wesley. 



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PREPARING TO ENTER THE COURTS OF 

THE LORD'S HOUSE. 

All things are ready: be ye also ready. 

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the 
Holy Ghost. Amen. 

Veni Creator. 

COME, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire. 
And lighten with celestial fire. 

Psalm xliii. Judica jne, Detis. 

GIVE sentence with me, O God, and defend my cause 
against the ungodly people : O deliver me from the 
deceitful and wicked man. 

2 For Thou art the God of my strength, why hast Thou 
put me from Thee : and why go I so heavily, while the 
enemy oppresseth me ? 

3 O send out Thy liglit and Thy truth, that they may 
lead me : and bring me unto Thy holy hill, and to Thy 
dwelling. 

4 And that I may go unto the Altar of God, even unto 
the God of my joy and gladness : and upon the harp will 
I give thanks unto Thee, O God, my God. 

5 Why art thou so heavy. O my soul : and why art 
thou so disquieted within me ? 

5 O put thy trust in God : for I will yet give Him 
thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. 

Glory be to the Father. 

We supplicate and entreat Thy Goodness that this 
Mystery, planned for our salvation, may not be to the 
condemnation of any of Thy people, but to the blotting out 
of sin, and to the renewal of soul and body. May all our 
service be well pleasing to Thee our God and Father, 
through the mercy and love towards men of Thine only 
begotten Son Jesus Christ. Amen. 



DIRECTION OF THE INTENTION. 

Most merciful Father, I humbly approach Thine 
Altar desiring to join in presenting before Thee the One 
Sacrifice which Thy Blessed Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, 
once made upon the Cross, and now continually pleads 
for us in Heaven, and which He hath commanded us to 
shew forth on earth till He come. 

I desire to offer It, first, for Thine own honour, praise, 
adoration, and glory, for Thou didst provide the Sacrifice 
which our High Priest ever presents. 

Secondly, in remembrance of His Blessed Passion and 
Precious Death, His most glorious Resurrection and 
Ascension. 

Thirdly, in thanksgiving for all Thy blessings bestowed 
in Him upon Thy whole Church, whether expectant in 
Paradise or militant on earth, and for those bestowed on 
me Thy unworthy servant {espec. . . .). 

Fourthly, for the remission of the sins of Thy whole 
Church, especially those which hinder the work of that 
Branch of Thy Church of which I am a member, those 
of the parish in which I live, of the household to wdiich 
I belong, and particularly my own most grievous sins 
{espec. . . .). 

Lastly, for obtaining all those blessings for Thy Holy 
Catholic Church, for the Church in this land, the diocese, 
parish, and household to which I belong, and for me, as 
Thou knowest to be best for us, that such as are yet alive 
may finish their course with joy, and that such as are dead 
in the Lord may rest in peace and hope and rise in glory, 
for the Lord's sake whose Death we are now about to 
commemorate. Amen. 

Take away from us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, all 
our iniquities, and the spirit of pride and arrogance which 
Thou resistest, and fill us with the spirit of holy fear, that 
we may worthily enter into the Holy of Holies. Amen. 



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IN THE OUTER COURT. 

APPROACH TO THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. 

/ tvill go tmto the Altar of God, even unto the God of 77iy 
joy and gladness. 

The Lord's Prayer stands first, as summing up the 
whole of the Service in our Lord's words. Say it with 
Eucharistic intention. 

Our Father, Which art in Heaven, Help us to reahze 
afresh in this Eucharist the glory of Thy Name, May 
Thy Kingdom through Its mighty efficacy be more firmly 
and widely established in the earth, and Thy will as 
revealed in the Cross more perfectly adored. Feed us 
this day with the Bread of Life. Give us absolution for 
the past, and strength to meet all the dangers and trials 
of the future. Amen. 

The Collect for Purity emphasizes the necessity of 
cleansing before offering. As in the case of the Jewish 
Sacrifices, the victims were cut in pieces before they 
were offered, signifying the laying open to the eye of 
God the inmost being of the offerer ; so we, before we 
offer our bodies, souls, and spirits, bare our inmost selves 
before His eye, recognizing that all the secrets of our 
hearts "are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him 
with Whom we have to do " It is this recollection that 
leads us to pray so earnestly that He, by the inspiration 
of His Holy Spirit, will cleanse our thoughts, that we 
may not only perfectly love Him, but worthily magnify 
His Name in the offering up of our Eucharist. 



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OUR Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy 
Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on 
earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily 
bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive 
those who trespass against us. And lead us not into 
temptation ; but deliver us from evil. Amen. 

(J^e Collect for ^itritg. 

ALMIGHTY God, unto Whom all hearts are open, all 
desires known, and from Whom no secrets are hid ; 
Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of 
Thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love Thee, and 
worthily magnify Thy holy Name ; through Christ our 
Lord. Amen, 



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IN THE OUTER COURT. 

BEFORE THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. 

The priest shall burii all upon the Altar, to be a burftt 
sacrifice unto the Lord. 

Man's duty to GOD is not the giving up of one faculty, 
but the entire surrender of all. So Christ sums up the 
First Commandment — all the mind, all the soul, all the 
affections .... He reserved nothing. All was burnt, 
all consumed upon the altar." 

Call: 

I. To Singleheartedness. — Thon shall love the Lord thy 

God with all thy heart. 
For thyself, pray for a more constant faith, a more stead- 
fast aim, a purer intention, and a more whole-hearted 
devotion. 

For the Church, pray that she may increasingly recognize 
that her whole life belongs to the Bridegroom, and 
that her witness to this in outward forms of daily 
devotion may be ever clearer and more distinct, and 
that she may be delivered from the temptation to try 
and serve two masters. 

II. To Spiritual Courag-e. — 7'hotc shalt love the Lord 

thy God vuitJi all thy soul. 
For thyself, pray for courage in times of depression, trial, 
or suffering ; for patience in weary waiting, for trust 
in desolation, and a brave contentment with an invis- 
ible God. 

For the Church, pray for faith when harassed by foes 
within and without, for patience with the limitations 
of spiritual knowledge, for steadfast reliance on the 
unseen guidance of the Holy Ghost, and the perpetual 
presence of her invisible Head. 



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^^t Sm dLommanbments, 
I. 

God spake these words, and said : I am The Lord thy 
God : Thou shalt have none other gods but Me. 

Lord, have mei'cy upon its, and incline ozir hearts to keep 
this law. 

II, 

Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor 
the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in 
the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth ; thou 
shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them ; for I 
The Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins 
of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth 
generation of them that hate Me ; and show mercy unto 
thousands in them that love Me and keep My command- 
ments. 

Lord, have 7ne7xy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep 
this law. 



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IN THE OUTER COURT. 

BEFORE THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. 

The priest shall burn all upon the Altar ^ to be a burnt 
sacrifice unto the Lord. 

EljC €h11 : 

III. To Reverence. — Thou s halt love the Lord thy God 
with all thy mind. 

For thyself, pray fgr a more earnest and constant study of 
the Bible, for a heartier desire to be in those places 
where the Name of GoD is made nigh, for fervour of 
spirit and recollectedness of mind. 

For the Church, pray that she may be a faithful witness 
against irreverence in priest or people, against super- 
stitious or profane use of the Holy Writings and 
Sacred Things, against slothful indifference to the 
intellectual demands of God's Revelation, and be 
increasingly zealous in bearing brave testim.ony to 
the Blessed Name throughout the earth. 

IV. To Devotion. — Thou shall love the Lord thy God 
with all thy strength. 

For thyself, pray for conscientious earnestness in your 
daily work, and for a growing love of such days of 
spiritual refreshment and healthful discipline as the 
Church has provided. 

For the Church, pray that she may set her face boldly 
against any violation of her children's Day of Rest ; 
be forward in shewing herself a pattern of all good 
works, bodily and spiritual ; and steadfast in holding 
forth to men the hope of eternal rest. 



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^\it ^tn Commanbmeitts* 
III. 

Thou shalt not take the Name of The Lord thy God 
in vain, for The Lord will not hold him guiltless, that 
taketh His Name in vain. 

Lord, have me^^cy upon iis, and incline our hearts to keep 
this law. 

IV. 

Remember that thou keep holy the vSabbath-day. Six 
days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do ; 
but the seventh day is the Sabbath of The Lord thy God. 
In it thou shalt do no manner of work ; thou, and thy 
son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid- 
servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy 
gates. For in six days The Lord made heaven and earth, 
the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh 
day : wherefore The Lord blessed the seventh day, and 
hallowed it. 

Lord, have mercy upon us^ and incline our hearts to keep 
this law. 

6 



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IN THE OUTER COURT. 

BEFORE THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. 

Thou shalt love thy iieighbou?' as thyself. 

Man's duty to his neighbour is that of service, but 
after the example of Christ, as ''an offering unto the 
Lord." Thus He gladly was spent for others, though 
the more He loved them, the less He was loved. 

^t Call : 

V. To Piety. — Learn first to show piety at home. 

For thyself, pray for the gifts of filial piety and tender- 
hearted affection in all the relationships of life ; for 
loyalty to the Church and patriotism. 

For the Churchy pi^^y that she may always live in willing 
and loving subjection to the Bridegroom, and be 
increasingly filled with love and reverence for the 
teaching of the saints in the past. 
VI. To Honour. — Honour all men. 

F^or thyself, pray for a genuine respect for every man as 
made in the image of God and redeemed by the Blood 
of Christ, and for patience with all human infirmity. 

For the Church, pray that she may witness against all 
respect of persons in the House of GoD or in courts 
of law, and all indifference to the claims of the out- 
cast and poor. 

VII. To Self-control. — Be sober. Be vigila?it. 

For thyself pray for strength against the seductions of 
ease and luxury, and courage to observe the health- 
ful restraints of the Church, and to practise any form 
of self-discipline that may help others. 

For the Churchy pi"^y for steadfastness in witnessing 
against all invasions of the sacredness of the mar- 
riage tie, and against immorality wherever and by 
whomsoever manifested. 



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St^e Stert Commanbmcnls. 
V. 

Honour thy father and thy mother ; that thy days may 
be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth 
thee. 

Lord^ have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep 
this law. 

VI. 

Thou shalt do no murder. 

Lord, have mercy upoit uSy and incline our hearts to keep 
this law. 

VII. 

Thou shalt not commit adultery. 

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep 
this law. 



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IN THE OUTER COURT. 

BEFORE THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. 
Thou shall love thy fieighbozir as thyself. 

gljc foil : 

VIII. To Honesty. — lit all things willing to live 
honestly. 

For thyself, pray to be scrupulously honest in appear- 
ance as well as in act, to be faithful in little as well 
as great things, to be rich towards God " and gen- 
erous towards man. 

Fo7' the Chu7'ch, pray for the spirit of counsel, that she 
may exert her influence wisely in all questions relat- 
ing to capital and labour, and witness boldly against 
fraud and corruption. 
IX. To Truthfulness. — Speak every man truth with 
his neighbour. 

For thyself, pray for courage to witness for Christ and 
His Church, for self-control in what you say of 
others, for love of truth, and hatred of falsehood, 
malice, and all uncharitableness. 

For the Church, pray for the increase of the spirit of jus- 
tice and fairness, that her children speak not evil of 
those who misunderstand her ; and for such a love 
of the truth that her teachers "rightly lay out the 
Word " of the Gospel. 
X. To Contentment. — Be content with such things 
as ye have. 

For thyself, pray for the spirit of cheerful contentment, 
and for hatred of all forms of covetousness. 

For the Churchy pt"ay that her satisfaction with the rule 
of the Bridegroom maybe expressed in bright. and 
joyous services, and that she may witness against all 
worldly ambition and self-seeking, whether in priest 
or people. 



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SCI^e ^tn Commanbmcitts. 

VIIL 

Thou shalt not steal. 

jLordj have me^^cy upon tis, and inclljie our hearts to keep 
this law. 

IX. 

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neigh- 
bour. 

Lord^ have mercy upon us^ and incline our hearts to keep 
this la7v. 

X. 

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt 
not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his servant, nor his 
maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is his. 

Lord, have mercy 7tpon tis, and write all these Thy laws 
in otir hearts, we beseech Thee. 

*[[ Then the Minister may say, 

Hear also what our Lord Jesus Christ saith. 

Thou shalt love thy Lord thy God with all thy heart, 
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the 
first and great commandment. And the second is like 
unto it ; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On 
these two commandments hang all the Law and the 
Prophets. 

Here, if the Decalogue hath been omitted, shall be said. 

Lord, have mercy upon us. 
Christ, have mercy upon us. 
Lord, have mercy upon us. 



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IN THE OUTER COURT. 

BEFORE THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. 

And if any one ivill offer a meat offering unto the Lord, 
he shall pour oil tipon it. 

The Appeal.-— Before we can offer after the pattern 
shown us in the Law of our Lord's Life, we need that 
which in the old offerings was symbolized by the oil ; i.e., 
the power of the Holy Ghost. Oil, or water which sig- 
nified the action of the same Blessed Spirit, was the in- 
gredient of every sacrifice. So prayer, the result of His 
movement within us, must precede, accompany, and follow 
every offering. With Christ, though all He did was in 
itself a sweet savour to the Father, yet Prayer was His 
Life, no part of His oblation was without it. How much 
more, then, is prayer necessary to our offerings ! 

Collect for Consecration. — In this we ask that we 
may delight to walk in the way we have looked at, that of 
Love to God and Love to man, and be strong to carry out 
the works in which all those who walk therein are engaged. 

Collect of the Day. — This embodies your special 
Eucharistic aspiration. It points the particular direction 
in which you desire the life of the Church and that of 
your own soul to move. It is that on which you have 
your eyes for a whole week. Make it deliberately and 
earnestly. 



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(KoIIett for Conseaatiort. 

T[ 7"-^^;^ //^^ Minister may say, 
Let us pray, 

ALMIGHTY Lord, and everlasting God, vouch- 
safe, we beseech Thee, to direct, sanctify, and govern 
both our hearts and bodies, in the v^^ays of Thy laws, and 
in the works of Thy commandments ; that through Thy 
most mighty protection, both here and ever, we may be 
preserved in body and soul ; through our Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen. 



doUect or (KoUwte of i\i fag. 



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IN THE OUTER COURT. 

BEFORE THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. 

/ wi/l hea7' what God the Lord will speak^ foi' He will 
speak peace unto His people and to His Saifits. 

The Epistle. — Before you hear the word of the Gospel, 
meeting your needs, the Church moves you, in the words 
of Apostles or Prophets, to expect the fulfilment of His 
promise to help all those who cry unto Him. It was 
an old English custom to kneel during the Epistle. This, 
though apparently not so primitive as sitting, has the 
advantage of emphasizing the sense of expectancy. ' 

The Answer.— r/^^- Holy 6'^?^^^/.— This is the only 
occasion on which we stand to listen to Holy Scripture. 
It is a precious relic of the past days when the Gospel 
was honored with reverence not unlike that given to the 
sacred elements. Enclosed in a magnificent casket it was 
carried into the church in procession and laid upon the 
Altar with much ceremony. When it was read, men 
were bidden "to stand up in great silence" and " with 
soul and ear erect ; " the Emperor put off his crown, and 
the people laid aside their staves. Do you also listen with 
great attention and reverence to the Word of the Lord, for 
" the Gospel hath such affinity to Christ that it is properly 
the Word of GoD and bears the name of our Lord." By 
It He cleanses your mind, conforms and assimilates it to 
His own, so that you are prepared to offer with Him the 
Sacrifice of Faith, Alms, and Intercession. 



Befo7'e the Gospel : 
Glory be to Thee, O Lord. 

After the Gospel : 
Thanks be to Thee, O Lord. 



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IN THE OUTER COURT. 

AT THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. 
T/lou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind. 

Making the Sacrifice of Faith. — The Creed is your 
response to the appeal of the Plrst and Third Command- 
ments. You offer It in union with our Lord. He is our 
Leader in Faith, for He too looked through the present 
and the visible to the future and unseen, . . . placing 
Himself at the head of the great army of heroes of faith." 

Recall His unswerving faith in the Father, even in the 
darkest hour upon the Cross ; in His Church and her fut- 
ure when she lay like a seed trodden under foot of men ; 
and you will make your act of faith with great joy and hope. 
You will rejoice to repeat "the words by which martyrs 
have lived and died, the words under which new nations 
have been enrolled as soldiers in Christ's army, the words 
which have remained through every vicissitude the stand- 
ard of the Christian belief." But, as you do so, remember 
that your repetition, every time you make it, carries with 
it a pledge of the sacrifice of your mind. It is a promise 
of ti?7ie to be bestowed in contemplation of the great truths 
you profess, of patience in learning their meaning, of 
labour in reading all that may help you to understand 
them, and of determination to witness to their truth. 

Offer up, then, your faith in One God — the Father — 
the Creator of all things seen and unseen : And in Jesus 
Christ — His only begotten Son, who for our salvation 
was made man, became obedient unto death, even the 
death of the Cross, and now lives and reigns King of Kings 
and Lord of Lords : rVnd in the Holy Ghost — the Lord 
and the Giver of Life, speaking through the Prophets, 
manifesting His unseen action through the Church, apply- 
ing to our souls the forgiveness of sins, and preparing our 
bodies for the Resurrection, and our whole selves for the 
unspeakable blessedness of Eternal Life. 



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^t Creeb. 

I BELIEVE in one God the Father Almighty, Maker 
of heaven and earth, And of all things visible and 
invisible : 

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten 
Son of God, Begotten of His Father before all worlds, 
God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, 
Begotten, not made ; Being of one substance with the 
Father ; By Whom all things were made : Who, for us 
men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven. 
And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the 
Virgin Mary. And was made Man, And was crucified 
also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered, and was 
buried ; And the third day He rose again, according to 
the Scriptures ; And ascended into heaven. And sitteth 
on the Right Hand of the Father : And He shall come 
again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead ; 
Whose kingdom shall have no end. 

And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord, and 
Giver of Life. Who proceedeth from the Father and the 
Son, Who with The Father and the Son together is wor- 
shipped and glorified ; Who spake by the Prophets. And 
I believe one Catholic and Apostolic Church: I acknowl- 
edge one Baptism for the remission of sins ; And I look 
for the Resurrection of the dead ; And the Life of the 
world to come. Amen. 



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IN THE OUTER COURT. 

AT THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. 

To do good and to distribute ^ forget not; for 7vith such 
sacrifices God is zvell pleased. 

Making the Sacrifice of Alms and Oblations. — 

Our offering is not simply that of the mind, but also that 
of the body. Our ^ifts of money, bread and wine, 
represent the fruits of our labor, whether as individuals 
or in our corporate capacity as a congregation of Christ's 
Church. In the presentation of our alms, we not only 
make some return for God's blessing on our labors, but 
we offer with it our work, whether it be that of study, 
business, or trade, for His Church, through Jesus Christ. 
It is our acknowledgment that the strength and ability for 
it came from Him. The oblations of bread and wine we 
offer as representing all the material gifts by which our 
lives have been enriched. 

II hen you have given yozir atfns, say^ 

ALMIGHTY God, the Source and Strength of every 
good work, accept and prosper, we pray Thee, the 
labours of us Thy servants and of this parish {espec. . . .), 
which we offer unto Thee in union with the One Obla- 
tion of Thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, and grant that 
whatever may be their issue, we may be pleasing to Thee, 
and glorify Thy Name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 

When the Oblations of Bread and Wine are being pre- 
sented, say, 

WE beseech Thee, O Lord, to accept these our Obla- 
tions of Bread and Wine, granting us to have 
thankful hearts for all these Thy gifts by which our bodily 
lives have been refreshed, and vouchsafing to all who 
shall receive the Holy Mysteries the spiritual Meat and 
Drink needed for the sustenance of our souls. Amen. 



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S^e #ffertonj Scitteittes. 

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see 
your good works, and glorify your Father Which is in 
Heaven. — S. Matt. v. i6. 

Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, 
even so do unto them ; for this is the Law and the 
Prophets. — S. Matt. vii. 12. 

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great 
matter if we shall reap your worldly things ? — i Cor. ix. 
II. 

He that soweth little, shall reap little ; and he that sow- 
eth plenteously shall reap plenteously. Let every man do 
according as he is disposed in his heart, not grudgingly, 
or of necessity ; for God loveth a cheerful giver. ^ — 2 Cor. 
ix. 6-7, 



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IN THE OUTER COURT. 

AT THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING. 

I exhort therefore that . . . supplications, prayers, inter- 
cessions and giving of thanks be made for all fften. 

Making- the Sacrifice of Prayers and Thanks- 
giving. — We now complete our first offering. 

(1) Make your Intercessions definite by recollecting 
the needs of the Church or individuals. 

{a) The Universal Church. Think of the divisions be- 
tween East and West ; of the ignorance and superstition 
still prevailing in large parts of the Church ; and pray for 
truth, unity, and concord. 

{b) All confessing Chris fs Name. Think of the ter- 
rible loss of power, the waste of money and time, caused 
by our unhappy divisions ; and *pray for " agreement in 
the Truth." 

[c] All Christian Fulers. Consider their difficulties, and 
ask that they may be wise, strong, just, and zealous for 
the Catholic Faith. 

{d) The Clergy. Think of the untold good resulting 
from a saintly life ; of the injury to Christ's Flock by 
irreverence or false teaching ; and pray for their sanctifica- 
tion. 

[e) All God' s People^ especially those present. Remem- 
ber here those you ought to pray for. 

( f ) The sick — the anxious — the sorrowing — the needy. 
Think of those whose trials have been lately brought be- 
fore you in conversation, of those in our Hospitals and 
Homes, of the destitute and homeless, of the many trying 
to meet their difficulties without prayer. 

(2) Make your Thanksgivings definite by calling to 
mind some of the departed who have helped your life. 
The Kalendar ought to give suggestions. 



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^\iz f rager for il^e dl^tirc^. 

Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church militant. 

ALMIGHTY and everliving God, who by Thy holy 
Apostle hast taught us to make prayers, and suppli- 
cations, and to give thanks for all men ; We humbly be- 
seech Thee most mercifully [^^o accept our ^ ^ ^^^^^ 
alms and oblations, and 1 to receive these aims or oblations, 

, . , , <-p-i Tx- theji shall the words 

our prayers, which we otier unto i ny in- |to accept our aims 
vine Majesty ; beseeching Thee to inspire ^^.^^^'If^^^^i ^"^J 
continually the Universal Church with 
the spirit of truth, unity, and concord : And grant that all 
those who do confess Thy holy Name may agree in the 
truth of Thy holy Word, and live in unity, and godly love. 
We beseech Thee also, so to direct and dispose the hearts 
of all Christian Rulers, that they may truly and impartially 
administer justice, to the punishment of wickedness and 
vice, and to the maintenance of Thy true religion, and 
virtue. Give grace, O heavenly Father, to all Bishops 
and other Ministers, that they may, both by their life and 
doctrine, set forth Thy true and lively Word, and rightly 
and duly administer Thy holy Sacraments. x\nd to all Thy 
people give Thy heavenly grace ; and especially to this 
congregation here present ; that, with meek heart and due 
reverence, they may hear, and receive Thy holy Word ; 
truly serving Thee in holiness and righteousness all the days 
of their life. And we most humbly beseech Thee, of Thy 
goodness-, O Lord, to comfort and succour all those who, 
in this transitory life, are in trouble, sorrow, need, sick- 
ness, or any other adversity. And we also bless Thy holy 
Name for all Thy servants departed this life in Thy faith 
and fear ; beseeching Thee to give us grace so to follow 
their good examples, that with them we may be par- 
takers of Thy heavenly kingdom. Grant this, O Father, 
for Jesus Christ's sake, our only Mediator and Advocate. 
Amen. 



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THE HOLY PLACE. 

APPROACH TO THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. 

O that men would therefore praise the Lord for His 
goodness y and declare the wonders that He doeth for 
the children of men; that they would offer unto 
Him the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving. 

The Call. — From the Outer Court, we now pass into 
the Holy Place. In some churches, the change which the 
Exhortations introduce is indicated by the advance of the 
Communicants into the Chancel. The advance, however, 
to which we are summoned is spiritual rather than bodily. 
We are called to a more difficult task, a more ardent devo- 
tion. The Sanctus symbolized by the Altar of Incense 
makes larger demands upon us than those we have re- 
sponded to at the Altar of Burnt Offering. The tone of 
Preparation is deeper, that of the Exhortations more 
urgent. The motive, too, is stronger. In the Law we had 
the example of the Life of Christ, in the Exhortations we 
have the Death and Passion of Christ. As the one stirred 
us to the devotion of service, so the other to the devotion 
of praise and adoration. Most men can recognize their 
indebtedness to GoD, but how few the loveliness of 
His Character ! The Holy Place is for Priests, those who 
by the "unction of the Holy One" given in Confirmation 
" know all things," and are therefore able to apprehend 
with all saints" something of ^'the breadth, and length, 
and depth, and height " of the mystery of Love revealed 
in the Comfortable Words. With the Sanctus before us, 
we can realize the necessity of such a penitence as is 
expressed in the Confession, and such a cleansing as is 
promised in the Absolution. 



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DEARLY beloved in the Lord, ye who mind to come to the 
Holy Communion of the Body and Blood of our Saviour 
Christ, must consider how S. Paul exhorteth all persons dili- 
gently to try and examine themselves, before they presume to eat 
of that Bread, and drink of that Cup. For as the benefit is great, 
if with a true penitent heart and lively faith we receive that Holy 
Sacrament ; so is the danger great, if we receive the same un- 
worthily. Judge therefore yourselves, brethren, that ye be not 
judged of the Lord ; repent ye truly for your sins past ; have a 
lively and steadfast faith in Christ our Saviour ; amend your 
lives, and be in perfect charity with all men ; so shall ye be meet 
partakers of those holy mysteries. And above all things ye must 

five most humble and hearty thanks to God, the Father, the 
on, and the Holy Ghost, for the redemption of the world by the 
death and passion of our Saviour Christ, both God and man : 
who did humble Himself, even to the death upon the Cross, for 
us, miserable sinners, who lay in darkness and the shadow of 
death ; that He might make us the children of God, and exalt us 
to everlasting life. And to the end that we should always re- 
member the exceeding great love of our Master, and only Saviour, 
Jesus Christ, thus dying for us, and the innumerable benefits 
which by His precious blood-shedding He hath obtained for us ; He 
hath instituted and ordained holy mysteries, as pledges of His 
love, and for a continual remembrance of His death, to our great 
and endless comfort. To Him therefore, with the Father and the 
Holy Ghost, let us give (as we are most bounden) continual 
thanks ; submitting ourselves wholly to His holy will and pleas- 
ure, and studying to serve Him in true holiness and righteous- 
ness, all the days of our life. A men. 



V^t lubitaiioiT. 

YE who do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and 
are in love and charity with your neighbours, and intend to 
lead a new life, following the commandments of God, and walk- 
ing, from henceforth in His holy ways ; Draw near with faith, 
and take this holy Sacrament to your comfort ; and make your 
humble confession to Almighty God, devoutly kneeling. 



93 jJnstructions axib iHicvotionQ. 



IN THE HOLY PLACE. 

BEFORE THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. 
Standing afar off.^* 

The Lowly Appeal. — The Altar of Incense is before 
us, but we dare not approach. "A great way off," this 
is our feeling as we realize how our sins have separated 
between us and God. The nearness reveals the distance, 
as S. Peter felt in the boat. (S. Luke v. 8.) But if we con- 
fess, He is faithful and just to forgive." Recall, as you 
repeat the words : 

Your sins of thought — espec. : 

Your sins of word — esj)ec. : 

Your sins of deed — espec. : 

And in appealing to GoD to rid you of your own bur- 
den, do not forget the unknown burdens of your brethren, 
" Forgive us all that is past." 

If you are remaining for a second celebration, think of 
the sins of the Church, and confess with shame that you 
have done so little to prevent them, nay, that in all you 
are more or less implicated — the worldliness that has 
invaded the sanctuary, the self-indulgence that cripples 
missionary effect, the cowardly indolence that dares not 
grapple with poverty, the faithlessness in prayer, the dis- 
cord and disunion, etc., etc. 



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Then shall this general Confession be made^ . . • 
humbly kneeling. 

%\z (KoitfessioiT. 

ALMIGHTY God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
Maker of all things, Judge of all men ; We 
acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wicked- 
ness, Which we, from time to time, most grievously have 
committed. By thought, word, and deed, against thy 
Divine Majesty, Provoking most justly thy wrath and 
indignation against us. We do earnestly repent. And are 
heartily sorry for these our misdoings ; The remembrance 
of them is grievous unto us ; The burden of them is 
intolerable. Have mercy upon us, Have mercy upon us, 
most merciful Father ; For thy Son our Lord Jesus 
Christ's sake, Forgive us all that is past ; And grant that 
we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness 
of life, To the honour and glory of thy Name ; Through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 



I CO Jnstructions axib JUetJotions, 



IN THE HOLY PLACE. 

BEFORE THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. 
" Made nigh by the Blood of Christ.'' 

The Answer. — Now exert your faith, for "according 
to thy faith so be it unto thee." Put away all thoughts 
of the scale of human forgiveness. He who tells us to 
forgive even until seventy times seven will not do less 
than He commands. Remember God's Word : 

Your sins are forgiven you for His Name's sake. — 
1 S. John ii. 12. 

Thy faith hath saved thee ; go in peace. — Luke vii. 50. 

Being reconciled we shall be saved by His Life. — 
Roni. V. 10. 

The Comfortable Words. — With all the mists of sin 
cleared away, we are now able to take in something of 
that wonderful vision of the Love of God which Christ 
shows us. The whole Gospel is revealed to us. 

Here say secretly : 

1. O Lord, what Thou sayest is true. Thy care for 
me is greater than all the care I can take for myself. — De 
Imitatione. 

2. How hast Thou loved us, good Father, Who spared 
not Thine own Son, but delivered Him up for us ungodly. 
—S. Aug. 

3. And in this world He was, and into this world He 
came, to save sinners ; unto Whom my soul confesseth, 
and He healeth it, for it hath sinned against Him. — 
S. Aug. 

4. My hope is strong in Christ, for He maketh inter- 
cession to Thee for my sins. Who has overcome the world, 
numbering me among the weak members of His Body. — 
S. Aug. 



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Tf Then shall the Priest {or the Bishop if he be present) 
stand upy and turning to the people^ say^ 

ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, who of his 
great mercy hath promised forgiveness of sins to all 
those who with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto 
him ; Have mercy upon you ; pardon and deliver you 
from all your sins ; confirm and strengthen you in all 
goodness ; and bring you to everlasting life ; through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen, 

^ Then shall the Priest say, 

Comfortable SSlorbs. 

Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith 
unto all who truly turn to Him. 

COME unto Me, all ye that travail and are heavy laden, 
and I will refresh you. — S. Matt. xi. 28. 
So God loved the world, that He gave His Only-Begotten 
Son, to the end that all that believe in Him should not 
perish, but have Everlasting Life. — S. John iii. 16. 
Hear also what Saint Paul saith. 

THIS is a true saying, and worthy of all men to be 
received, That Christ Jesus came into the world to 
save sinners. — i S. Tim, i. 15. 

Hear also what Saint John saith. 

IF any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, 
Jesus Christ the Righteous ; and He is the Propiti- 
ation for our sins. — i S. John ii. i, 2. 



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IN THE HOLY PLACE. 

AT THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. 

** T/ie smoke of the incense . . . ascended up before 
God out of the angel's hand. " 

Making the Offering of Praise. — You now approach 
the altar of incense, and the Church appeals to you to 
put forth all your faculties that you may worthily offer the 
Spiritual Sacrifice of Praise. You are not now to think of 
what God has done for you, so much as of what He is, His 
Glory, Infinite Perfections, Eternal Love. This is the 
theme of angels' praise. They are lost in admiration of 
what He is. They cry, " Holy, Holy, Holy," as express- 
ing their sense of the absolute Beauty and Purity of God. 
These are reflected for us both in heaven and earth, which 
we confess to be full of His Glory. It is the vision that 
we have just looked upon that explains this. Knowing the 
Self-Sacrifice of God, we can feel that the earthly battle- 
fields and scenes of sorrow and strife do not really mar 
the loveliness of nature. They are the marks of the 
progress of the Son of God in His victory over sin. Yes, 
the who/e earth is fut/ of His Glory. " Glory be to Thee, 
O Lord Most High." 



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^ A fter 7uhich the Priest shall proceed, saying, 
Lift up your hearts. 

Answer, We lift them up unto the Lord. 
Priest. Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. 
Answer. It is meet and right so to do. 

^ Then shall the Priest turn to the Lord's Table, and say, 

%\t |refm. 

IT is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we 
should at all times, and in all places, give thanks 
unto Thee, O Lord, ^ Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting 
God. 

^ Here shall follow the Proper Preface, according to the 
time, if there be any specially appoifited ; or else immedi- 
ately shall follozu, 

THEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, and with 
all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify 
thy glorious Name, evermore praising Thee, and saying, 

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, Heaven and 
earth are full of Thy glory : Glory be to Thee, O 
Lord Most High. Amen. 



* These words {Holy Father] must be omitted on Trinity- 
Sunday. 



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IN THE HOLY PLACE. 

AT THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. 

''^As for me, I 7vill be talking of Thy u-orship^ Thy glory. 
Thy praise and wondrous works.'' 

Making the Offering of Praise.— On particular occa- 
sions the Church has peculiar motives for praise. These 
Prefaces strike the particular note that governs the 
Church's Seasons and bring out some special feature of 
God's Love, for adoration. 

Christmas shows us the love of the Father in giving 
His Son to be born, the wonderful condescension of the 
Son in becoming incarnate, and the love of the Holy 
Ghost in so sanctifying our Human Nature, that it was 
without spot of sin when taken into union with the Word. 

Easter witnesses to our Reconciliation and Justifica- 
tion, and to the gift of everlasting life provided by the 
Father, purchased by the Son, and applied to our souls 
by the Holy Ghost. 

The Ascension assures us of the Father's desire to have 
us with Himself, of the preparation being made by the 
Son for our abode in the heavenly mansions, of the un- 
ceasing work of the Holy Ghost in making us "meet to 
be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light." 

Whitsunday speaks of the gracious gift of illumina- 
tion and sanctification sent to us by the Father in the 
Person and Work of the Holy Ghost, and procured for us 
by the INIediation of the Son, the fruits of which the Spirit 
receives and bestows upon us. 

The Feast of Trinity calls to our minds the substan- 
tial and essential Unity in which the Three Blessed Persons 
dwell. We worship One God, One Lord. And though 
to the Father we ascribe our Creation, to the Son our 
Redemption, and to the Holy Ghost our Sanctification, yet 
we confess that the glory of Each is the same without any 
difference or inequality. 



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proper f rrfaas. 

upon Christmas-day, a7id seven days after. 

BECAUSE thou didst give Jesus Christ, thine only Son, to be 
born as at this time for us ; who, by the operation of the Holy 
Ghost, was made very man, of the substance of the Virgin Mary 
His Mother ; and that without spot of sin, to make us clean from 
all sin. 

Upon Easter-day, and seven days after. 

BUT chiefly are we bound to praise thee for the glorious Resur- 
rection of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord : For He is the very 
Paschal Lamb, Which was offered for us, and hath taken away the 
sin of the world ; who by His Death hath destroyed death, and, by 
His Rising to life again, hath restored to us Everlasting Life. 

Up07i Ascension-day, and seven days after. 

THROUGH Thy most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our 
Lord ; Who, after His most glorious Resurrection, manifestly 
appeared to all His Apostles, and in their sight ascended up into 
heaven, to prepare a place for us, that where He is, thither we 
might also ascend, and reign with Him in glory. 

Upon Whitsunday, and six days after. 

THROUGH Jesus Christ our Lord ; according to Whose most 
true promise, the Holy Ghost came down as at this time from 
Heaven, with a sudden great sound, as it had been a mighty wind, 
in the likeness of fiery tongues, lighting upon the Apostles, to 
teach them, and to lead them to all truth ; giving them both the 
gift of divers languages, and also boldness with fervent zeal con- 
stantly to preach the Gospel unto all nations ; whereby we have 
been brought out of darkness and error into the clear light and 
true knowledge of Thee, and of Thy Son Jesus Christ. 

Upon the Feast of Trinity only., may be said, 

WHO art One God, One Lord ; not one only Person, but Three 
Persons in one Substance. For that which we believe of 
the glory of the Father, the same we believe of the Son, and of the 
Holy Ghost, without any difference or inequality. 

^ Or else this may be said., the words [Holy Father] beingretained 
in the Introductory A ddress. 

FOR the precious death and merits of thy Son Jesus Christ our 
Lord, and for the sending to us of the Holy Ghost, the Com- 
forter, Who are One with Thee in Thy eternal Godhead. 



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THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

PREPARING TO ENTER THE INNER SANCTUARY. 

Having boldness to enter into the Holiest by the Blood of 
Jesus. 

Through Him we have access by One Spirit tmto the Father. 

The Appeal. — Make this with a realization of the 
unspeakable solemnity which belongs to that Presence 
into which you are now to enter. You approach the 
Father, the same Father whose covenanted Presence was 
symbolized of old by the cherubim overshadowing with 
their outstretched wings the Ark of GoD, and by the 
golden glory of the Shekinah that hovered above the 
Mercy Seat and glowed in the dark sanctuar)'. His Pres- 
ence is not less awful now than then, though figured to 
us by that simple word " Table." In its bright white 
light our best deeds are but as filthy rags. We dare not 
even lie low beneath His footstool. We have no access 
but through the Blood of Jesus pleaded and partaken of ; 
so we are taught to pray that we may so " eat the Flesh of 
His dear Son Jesus Christ, and drink His Blood, that our 
sinful bodies may be made clean by His Body, and our 
souls washed through His most precious Blood, and that 
we may evermore dwell in Him, and He in us." Being 
made one with Him, we can face the glory of the Father's 
Presence and participate by faith in that which, when 
fully revealed hereafter, will constitute the Beatific Vision 
of His Saints. But take heed that at that lofty moment, 
when you are lifted up into the Heavenly Places by the 
supernatural power of the Body and Blood of Christ, you 
have something which you can share with Him who 
invites you to His Table. His Love is in His Son Jesus 
Christ, the Beloved." Yours must be there too. 



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WE do not presume to come to this Thy Table, O 
merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, 
but in Thy manifold and great mercies. We are not 
worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under Thy 
Table. But Thou art the same Lord, whose property 
is always to have mercy : Grant us therefore, gracious 
Lord, so to eat the Flesh of Thy dear Son Jesus Christ, 
and to drink His Blood, that our sinful bodies may be 
made clean by His Body, and our souls washed through 
His most precious Blood, and that we may evermore 
dwell in Him, and He in us. Amen. 



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THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 

Behold, what manner of love the Father' hath bestowed 
upon us. 

The Gloria. — The first words in the great Consecra- 
tion Prayer are those of worship and adoration. Before 
we ''show forth the Lord's Death " before the Father, 
we acknowledge with love and gratitude His tender mercy 
and the love of His only Son Jesus Christ, made so plain 
to us upon the Cross. Try by frequent meditation to 
realize these. 



L The Father's tender mercy. 

" The Father Himself loveth you.^* 

Mine is an unchanging love. 
Higher than the heights above. 
Deeper than the depths beneath, 
Free and faithful, strong- as death. 

IL The Sacrifice of the Son upon the Cross. 

Greater love hath no man than this.'* 

With all His sufferings full in view. 

And woes to us unknown, 
Forth to the task His spirit flew ; 

'Twas love that urged Him on. 

III. The Love of the Son in the Holy Eucharist. 

" The riches of the glory of this mystery,"* 

O wisest love ! that flesh and blood. 

Which did in Adam fail, 
Should strive afresh against the foe. 

Should strive and should prevail ; 
And that a higher gift than grace 

Should flesh and blood refine, 
God's Presence and His very Self, 

And Essence all-Divine. 



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THE PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. 
I. iJlj£ 46Iom. 

ALL glory be to Thee, Almighty God, our 
Heavenly Father, for that Thou, of Thy tender 
mercy, didst give Thine only Son Jesus Christ to 
suffer death upon the Cross for our Redemption ; 
Who made there (by His One Oblation of Himself 
once offered) a full, perfect, and sufficient Sacrifice, 
Oblation, and Satisfaction, for the sins of the 
whole world; and did institute and in His Holy 
Gospel command us to coritmue, a perpetual 
Memory of that His Precious Death and Sacrifice 
until His coming again : 



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IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 

Before 7vhose eyes, Jesus Christ was openly set forth 
crucified. 

The Consecration, a Representation of the 
Passion. — Every action and every word is here most 
significant, for they are the words and actions of the 
Lord in His first pleading of the Sacrifice. Ponder 
them well. 

The same night that He was betrayed. — What amazing 
love ! Whilst man is selling the Son of God for thirty 
pieces of silver, He is buying man out of bondage at the 
cost of His own most precious Blood. 

He took Bread. — The Bread He took for the offering 
was His own most sacred Body. He allowed no other 
life to be involved in the Sacrifice. Of those the Father 
gave Him, He lost none. 

And when He had given thanks. — The Agony — the 
Desertion — the Shame — the Crucifixion are before Him, 
and yet He gives thanks. 

He brake it. — He it was who gave His Body to be 
.bruised, scourged, and nailed to the wood. 

And gave It to His Disciples. — Wonder follows wonder ! 
Not only did He give His Body as an offering to the 
Father, but as a gift to men for their sanctification. 

A fter Supper He took the Cup. — That Cup of mysterious 
suffering which had caused the agony in the Garden, 
He took, when He tasted the horrors of Death, when He 
gave Himself up to that darkness out of which came 
forth the cry, ' ' My God, my God, v/hy hast Thou for- 
saken Me ?" 

Do this i7i reme7nbrance of Me. — Twice repeated, that 
we might never forget the solemn charge to celebrate His 
Passion and be made one with It. 



THE PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. 
2. ST^e Consecration, 

T7OR in the night in which He was betrayed, ^ He 
took Bread ; and when He had , ^J^^^^f^^ ^^^^'^ 

' take the Paten into hts 

given thanks, * He brake it, and ^^^^^^ 
gave it to His disciples, saying, .^J 5?^^/^''^ ^''^'^'^ 
Take, eat, - This is My Body, , 

Which is given for you; hand upon an the Bread. 

Do this in Remembrance of Me. 

Likewise, after supper, ^He d Here he is to take the 
took the Cup ; and when He had ^''^ 
given thanks. He gave it to them, saying. 

Drink ye all of this, For ^ This is My Blood of 
THE New Testament, Which e And here he is to lay 

is shed for you, and for ^siiiTJhfh7h7r7islni 

MANY, FOR THE REMISSION OF ^^ne to deconsecrated. 
SINS. 

Do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in Remem- 
brance of Me. 



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IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 



BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 

are come to Jesus, the Mediator of a new covenant, and 
to the Blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better than 
that of Abel. 

Celebrating and making the Memorial of Christ's 
Death. — The Consecration is not chiefly a shewing forth 
of the Lord's Death before the Church, but rather a 
Re-Presentation of It before the Father. In it we do 
that which was signified by the High Priest when He 
sprinkled the Blood on the Mercy vSeat. We unite with 
our High Priest in His solemn pleading of the Sacrifice 
before the Throne. 

For as the Priest of Aaron's line 

Within the Holiest stood, 
And sprinkled all the mercy shrine 

With sacrificial Blood ; 
So He Who once atonement wrought, 

Our Priest of endless power. 
Presents Himself for those He bought 

In that dark noontide hour. 
His Manhood pleads where now It lives 

On heaven's eternal Throne. 
And where in mystic rite He gives 

Its Presence to His own. 

AVith the Holy Gifts, then, we celebrate and make that 
Memorial here on -earth which He ever makes in Heaven. 
We make it as our great Thankoffering for the innumer- 
able benefits (here think of those you are especially 
bound to remember,) procured to us by His Passion, 
Precious Death, Mighty Resurrection, and Glorious 
Ascension. 



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THE PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. 

3. ©blHtiott of Christ 
'HEREFORE, O Lord and Heavenly Father, 



according to the Institution of Thy dearly 
beloved Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, we, Thy 
humble servants, do celebrate and make here before 
Thy Divine Majesty, with these Thy holy gifts, 
which we now offer unto Thee, the Memorial Thy 
Son hath commanded us to make ; having in remem- 
brance His Blessed Passion and Precious Death, 
His Mighty Resurrection and Glorious Ascension ; 
rendering unto Thee most hearty thanks for the 
innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same. 




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IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 

// is the Spirit that qiiickeneth. 

The Invocation. — We have used the privilege granted 
us of lifting up the Death of Christ before the Father. 
But the very action pledges us to its spirit. If ^n^ have 
" become united with Him in the likeness of His Death,'' 
we ought to be united with Him " in the likeness of His 
Resu-rrection.'" " Our old 7nan was crucified with Him, 
that the body of sin might be done away, that heitceforth 
we should not se^'ve sin.'' The pleading of the Sacrifice 
binds us to a life of self-sacrifice. Fellowship with the 
Divine life of giving calls for human deeds in sympathy 
with it. It is impossible to kneel in that High and Holy 
Presence of the Father, and take part with our Lord in 
that lofty pleading, wdthout craving His glorified Human- 
ity, so that this act in " the heavenly places " may be no 
isolated act, but one with which our whole earthly life is in 
harmony. Hence the Invocation of the Holy Ghost, that 
through His mighty action upon the holy gifts, we receiv- 
ing them may be partakers of our Saviour's most Blessed 
Body and Blood. It is the promise of this great gift that 
enables us to make the oblation of ourselves in the words 
that follow. 



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THE PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. 



ND we most humbly beseech Thee, O merciful 



Father, to hear us ; and, of Thy almighty 
goodness, vouchsafe to bless and sanctify, with 
Thy Word and Holy Spirit, these Thy gifts and 
creatures of Bread and Wine ; that we, receiving 
Them according to Thy Son our Saviour Jesus 
Christ's Holy Institution, in remembrance of His 
Death and Passion, may be partakers of His most 
Blessed Body and Blood. 



4. Slj« Inbotation. 




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IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 

Ve are bought with a price ; therefore glorify God in your 
body and in your spirit^ which are God' s. 

Self-Oblation in Union with the Oblation of 
Christ. — All is ready for the unspeakable blessing of 
participation, but one act yet remains. We have in our 
hands the gifts of service and praise which we offered in 
the Outer Court and Holy Place. These we would fain 
offer again in union with That Which alone gives them 
acceptance. 

We offer up our Sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, 
with the wide petition that, by the merits of Christ's 
Death in which it is sanctified, we and the whole Church 
of God — that of the living and that of the departed, 
that of the East and that of the West, that of America 
and that of England — may obtain remission of our sins 
and all other benefits of Christ's Passion. He, the Great 
Bishop and Shepherd of our souls, knows our needs, and 
He will supply them. 

We next offer and present ourselves, our souls and 
bodies, with that most touching prayer that we and all 
others who shall be partakers of this Holy Communion 
may worthily receive the most precious Body and Blood 
of Jesus Christ, and be filled with the grace and heavenly 
benediction of the Father. As we say these words we 
think of the many who, though separated from us by dis- 
tances on sea or land, find with us their meeting-place in 
Christ Jesus, by whom * ' the wall of partition is broken 
down.'^ 



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THE PRAYER OF CONSECRATION. 
5. STlje ©blatioiT of ^mszlbtB, 

AND we earnestly desire Thy Fatherly Goodness, 
mercifully to accept this our Sacrifice of 
Praise and Thanksgiving ; most humbly beseech- 
ing Thee to grant that, by the Merits and Death of 
Thy Son Jesus Christ, and through faith in His 
Blood, we, and all Thy whole Church, may obtain 
remission of our sins, and all other benefits of His 
Passion. 

And here we offer and present unto Thee, O 
Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a 
reasonable, holy, and living Sacrifice unto Thee ; 
humbly beseeching Thee, that we, and all others 
who shall be partakers of this Holy Communion, 
may worthily receive the most precious Body and 
Blood of Thy Son Jesus Christ, be filled with Thy 
Grace and Heavenly Benediction, and made one 
body with Him, that He may dwell in us, and we in 
Him. 

And although we are unworthy, through our 
manifold sins, to offer unto Thee any Sacrifice ; yet 
we beseech Thee to accept this our bounden duty 
and service ; not weighing our merits, but pardon- 
ing our offences, through Jesus Christ our Lord ; 
by Whom, and with Whom, in the unity of the 
Holy Ghost, all honour and glory be unto Thee, O 
Father Almighty, world without end. Amen. 

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IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 

Lo}'d, evermore give iis this Bread. 

L Communion with our Lord. — No words can set 
forth the exceeding preciousness of the privilege which is 
now ours. It must have been a great thing to have been 
blessed by Christ, as the little children were ; still 
greater, to have been kissed by Him, as at least one of the 
disciples was ; but these honours pale before the glory 
which is ours of receiving His Blessed Body and Blood. 
But as faith alone perceived Him then, so faith alone 
discerns Him now. Gird up, then, your spiritual energies, 
lest you be of the multitude that touch Him without 
receiving His Virtue. Shut out every sight and sound, 
until faith sees Him standing, as He did on the night in 
which He was betrayed, amongst the I'welve, waiting to 
give to each the Life that was then being offered to the 
Father. Then say very slowly the " Agnus Dei," make 
an act of faith in His covenanted Presence, and, like the 
Magi, the holy women, the disciples, acknowledge that 
Presence by an Act of Worship. After receiving, make 
an effort to realize that you have been closer to our Lord 
than S. John was when he leaned upon His breast, for 
you are one with Him. Speak freely, but with reverent 
seriousness, of those things in which you are most nearly 
concerned ; but so arrange your time that you may be 
able to hold Communion with the Father and the Holy 
Ghost before you join the Church in her Thanksgivings. 
Be unselfish, and use one or more of the Intercessions 
that you may realize the intention of the Lord's Prayer. 
It is abundantly worth while to commit to memory as 
many as possible of such devotions as you are accustomed 
to use at this time. 



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f^e ®orb$ of g^brntntslraliott. 



And when he delivereth the Bread to any one he shall say, 

'T^HE Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which 



was given for thee, preserve thy body 
and soul unto everlasting life. 

Take and eat This in remembrance that 
Christ died for thee, and feed on Him in 
thy heart by faith, with thanksgiving. 

And the Mini ste7' that delivereth the Cup to any one shall 



n^HE Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
which was shed for thee, preserve thy 
body and soul unto everlasting life. 

Drink this in remembrance that Christ's 
Blood was shed for thee, and be thankful. 




say, 




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IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 
Prepare to meet thy God. 

L Communion with our Lord : {a) Preparation. — 
Our Lord now comes to make us one with Himself by the 
gift of His Body and Blood, that through His Flesh we 
may have boldness to enter into the Holiest. i\.fter the 
Act of Penitence recognize His Presence by an Act of 
Faith, then let your faith carry you on to worship. 

Act of Penitence. — O Lamb of GoD, that takest away 
the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. 

O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, 
have mercy upon us. 

O Lamb of GoD, that takest away the sins of the world, 
grant us Thy peace. 

Act of Faith. — *' Lord, I believe ; help Thou mine un- 
belief." O Lord God, how I receive the Body and Blood 
of my Most Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, is the very 
wonder of my soul, yet my most firm and constant belief 
upon the word of my Saviour. At this time they are 
graciously offered to me and my faith. Lord, make me 
a worthy receiver, and be it unto me as Thou hast said. 
Amen. 

Act of Worship. — I adore Thee, O Lord my God, 
present in this Holy Sacrament. Prostrate I adore Thy 
Majesty, and because sinful and unworthy as I am I cannot 
honour Thee as 1 ought. I unite myself with Thy Saints 
and Angels in their more perfect adoration. Behold, I 
praise, I bless, I glorify Thee ; I would that all might 
glorify Thee in this mystery of Thy love. And grant to 
me that, dying to the world and living here a life hidden 
in Thee, I may see Thy face unveiled, to love and adore 
and rejoice in Thee through all eternity. Amen. 



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IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 

// any man hear My voice and open the door, I will come 
in to hi7n, and will sup with him, and he with Me. 

L Communion with our Lord : The Reception. 

On approaching the Altar. — Lord, I am not worthy 
that Thou shouldest come under my roof, but speak the 
word only and my soul shall be healed. 

Whilst waiting to receive. 

Oh, come in this sweet morning hour, 

Feed me with Food Divine, 
And fill with all Thy love and power 

This worthless heart of mine. 

A fter receiving the Heavenly Bread. — Glory be to Thee 
Who feedest me with the Bread of Life. 

Before receiving the Chalice. — I will receive the Cup of 
salvation, and call upon the Name of the Lord. 

After. Grace and life eternal, 

In that Blood I find ; 
Blest be His compassion, 
Infinitely kind. 

The Counsel. — In retnembrance that Christ died for 
thee. 

On thee and thine, thy warfare and thine end, 
E'en in His hour of agony He thought. 

Feed on Him by faith, with thanks- 
giving. 

Lord, in ceaseless contemplation, 

Fix my thankful heart on Thee, 
Till I taste Thy full salvation. 

And Thine unveiled glory see. 

On resuming your seat. — Think quietly of the gift you 
have received. Say the Magnificat, part of the Te Deum, 
a hymn, or whatever helps you to express your gratitude. 

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IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 
Truly our fellowship is with the Father. 

II. Communion with the Father. — The end of all 

Communion with the Son is nothing less than the imme- 
diate presence of the Father. Christ is not Himself the 
end, but the Way. And yet the Father is not found 
at some point beyond Christ, as it were. " He that hath 
seen Me hath seen the Father.'* Realize this fellowship 
with the Father, by Meditation, Prayer, and Praise. 
ya) Say Psahii ciii., or part of it. 

\b) We render thanks and praise to Thee, O Lord, our 
Father, Who hast strengthened us with the Communion 
of the Body and Blood of Thy most dearly beloved Son ; 
humbly beseeching Thy mercy that this Sacrament may 
not increase our guilt and punishment, but may plead for 
our pardon and salvation. May it be the abolition of our 
sins, the strength of our weakness, our bulwark against 
the perils of the world. May this Communion cleanse us 
from guilt and make us partakers of the joy of heaven, 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

(r) O Lord, our God Almighty and Eternal Father, Who 
givest to Thy children liberally and upbraidest not ; we 
bless Thee for Thine infinite goodness to us and to all men ; 
we give Thee thanks for the world and all the good things 
which are therein — for our home, our friends, and for those 
blessings we now desire especially to remember. Most 
of all, we bless Thee for Thy Son Jesus Christ our Saviour, 
in Whom we have Redemption, the remission of our sins, 
and through Whom are all those things that we richly en- 
joy. In Thy service may we live, and in Thy favour may 
we die, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 



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IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 
BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 
TAe Coimnunion of the Holy Ghost. 
III. Communion with the Holy Ghost. — Through 
Christ, but in One Spirit, we have access to the Father, 
Forget not Him Whose inspiration you asked for at the 
beginning of the Service, Who took the words of Jesus 
Christ and shewed them to you. Who applied to your soul 
the cleansing power of the precious Blood of Christ in 
the Absolution, Who " spread out hands from within you 
to receive from the hands of the Father the Body of the 
Son." 

Make some acknowledgment of His Love in these or 
other words. 

(1) O Holy Ghost the Comforter, through Whose 
mighty operation the gifts of the Father in Jesus Christ 
have been received and made my own, so that I am 
enabled to stand before His awful Throne, clothed in 
the garment of Christ's Righteousness ; accept my humble 
praises for ail these Thy mercies, and mercifully grant 
that by Thy holy inspiration I may continue to think 
those things that be good, and by Thy loving guidance 
may perform the same ; Who with the Father and the Son 
art blessed and glorified now and for evermore. Amen. 

(2) " He Is faithftd.'''' 

TO Thee, O Comforter Divine, 
For all Thy grace and power benign, 
Sing we Alleluia ! 
To Thee, Whose faithful love had place 
In God's great covenant of grace, 

Sing we Alleluia ! 
To Thee, Whose faithful power doth heal, 
Enlighten, sanctify, and seal, 

Sing we Alleluia ! 
To Thee, our Teacher and our Friend, 
Our faithful Leader to the end, 
Sing we Alleluia 1 



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IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. \ 

BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 
IVe have fellozvsJiip one with anothe?'. 

IV. Communion with the Church. — "It is much to 
be observed that this Sacrament is not only our means of 
maintaining union with Christ, but also of maintaining 
union with one another. The two things necessarily go 
together. . . . None can receive Christ as a kind of ; 
private property. We must receive Him in unity and 
loving fellowship or not at all." 

{a) With the Chitrch in thy house. — Stretch forth, O 
Lord, the right hand of Thy Power and Love upon all ' 
those who are near or dear to me . . .). Grant jj 

that they may be guided by the light of Thy divine inspi- j 
ration, filled with the gifts of Thy bountiful Providence, ,! 
preserved in body and soul, and finally be presented 
faultless before the Presence of Thy glory with exceeding I 
joy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 1 

{b) With the Church in thy Parish. — Almighty and | 
everlasting God, Who dost govern all things in Heaven ij 
and earth, mercifully hear my prayers, and grant to this 
parish all things that are needful for its spiritual welfare ! 
\espec. . . .). Bless, both in body and soul, those J 
whom Thou hast set over us ; Grant that in our Church "'i 
the poor may be freely admitted to worship Thee. 
Strengthen and confirm the faithful . . . ; Visit and 
relieve the sick . . . ; Turn and soften the wicked 

; Rouse the careless . , . ; Recover the i 
fallen . . . ; Restore the penitent . . . ; Re- 
move all hindrances to the advancement of Thy truth ; 
and bring all to be of one heart and mind within the fold | 
of Thy Holy Church ; to the Honour and Glory of Thy j 
Blessed Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. j 



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(c) With the ChMrck in thy Diocese. — Almighty and 
Merciful God, look down in Thy mercy upon Thy servant, 
N., our Bishop, to whom Thou hast given charge over this 
Diocese, and evermore guide, defend, comfort, sanctify 
and save him, and grant to this Diocese all things need- 
ful for its spiritual welfare . . . ; faithful and godly 
priests to proclaim, the everlasting Gospel and minister 
the Sacraments ; Christian schools for the education of the 
young ; beautiful Churches for the reverent worship of 
Thy Holy Name ; Hospitals for the sick and Homes for 
the destitute and fallen. And in Thy mercy send down 
from heaven into our hearts that peace which the world 
cannot give, that with one heart and mind we may glorify 
Thy Holy Name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

(c/) With the Church in thy Country. — We beseech 
Thee, Almighty Father, for that branch of Thy Holy 
Catholic and Apostolic Church to which we belong, that 
what is wanting in it may be supplied, what is unsound 
corrected ; that all heresies, schisms and scandals, as well 
public as private, may be removed ; and that she may be 
hlled with the spirit of missionary zeal, shewing all dili- 
gence both in prayers and alms to spread abroad the 
knowledge of Thy triith and to enlarge the boundaries of 
Thy kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

(<?) With the Church in the World. — O LoRD Jesus 
Christ, who saidst unto Thine Apostles, Peace I leave 
with you. My peace I give unto you ; regard not my sins, 
but the faith of Thy Church, and grant her that peace 
and unity which is accordnig to Thy will. Who livest and 
reignest for ever and ever, one God, world without end. 
Amen. 

(/) With the Church iii Paradise. — Be mindful, O Lord, 
of the souls of Thy servants and handmaidens who have 
gone before us with the sign of faith and rest in the sleep 
of peace .... To them, O Lord, and all who rest 
in Christ, mercifully grant a place of refreshment, of light, 
and of peace, through the same Christ our Lord. 



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IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 

He hath made us liijtgs and Priests imto God and His 
Father. 

The Thanksgiving, {a) The Lord's Prayer. 

Realize your Priesthood. Offer up to the Father before 
Whose Throne you kneel your petitions for the whole 
world in the words our Lord has taught us. Think of all 
those, whether living or departed, for whom you have been 
praying, and make each petition an earnest and devout 
intercession. You, at least, who have been "enlightened 
and have tasted of the heavenly gift," know, beyond all 
doubt, that w^hatever contradictions the world may present, 
the Kingdom, the Glorv, and the Power belong to God. 

{b) The Prayer of Thanksgiving. 

Realize your Royalty. " As many as received Him, to 
them gave He power to become children of God,^' and 
" if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with 
Christ/' This is your position ; mark how some feature 
of it is noted in each motive for Thanksgiving that the 
Prayer supplies : 

(1) Receiving " the food of the most precious Body 
and Blood," we are made partakers of the Divine Nature. 

(2) Being thereby assured of God's goodness and favour 
towards us, we are able to cry, Abba, Father. 

(3) Being very members incorporate in the mystical 
Body of Christ, we are raised to sit with Him even now 
in " heavenly places." 

(4) Being heirs of tlie Kingdom, if we overcome and 
keep His w^orks to the end, He will give us a seat with 
Him in His Throne and power over the nations. 

Such are the benefits of the Holy Fellowship into 
which you have been admitted ; pray that you may abide 
in It, and do all such works as GoD has prepared for you 
to walk in. 



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^t f orb's frager. 

OUR Father, Who art m heaven, Hallowed be Thy 
Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done 
on earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily 
bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive 
those who trespass against us. And lead us not into 
temptation ; But deliver us from evil : For Thine is the 
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and 
ever. Amen. 

(E^Ije ^rager of STj^anhsgtbhtg, 

ALMIGHTY and everliving God, we most heartily 
thank Thee, for that Thou dost vouchsafe to feed us 
who have duly received these holy Mysteries, with the 
spiritual food of the most precious Body and Blood of 
thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ ; and dost assure us 
thereby of Thy favour and goodness towards us ; and that 
we are very members incorporate in the mystical body of 
Thy Son, which is the blessed company of all faithful 
people ; and are also heirs through hope of Thy everlast- 
ing kingdom, by the merits of the most precious death 
and passion of Thy dear Son. And we most humbly 
beseech Thee, O heavenly Father, so to assist us with Thy 
grace, that we may continue in that holy fellowship, and 
do all such good works as Thou hast prepared for us to 
walk in ; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to Whom, with 
Thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world 
without end. Amen. 



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IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 

T/iey slug the Song of Moses the servant of God, and the 
Song of the Lamb. 

The Adoration. — This angelic hymn is the crown of 
our Praise and Thanksgiving. Through our Communion 
with Him Who sits at the right hand of the Father and 
has exaked us, our eyes are opened to see things as the 
angels see them. Their vision is ours. Above us, high 
and Hfted up, is the Father seated on a Throne, His train 
filling the Temple ; beneath our feet. His creation, the 
earth out of which we sprang ; around ns, united to us by 
ties of blood and interest, the great family of mankind. 
To God we give glory, to the earth Peace, to mankind 
our love. With this angelic preface we offer up our last 
offering of Praise. 

Praise to the Father. — It is the Glory of GoD that . 
excites our praise, the Glory seen in shadowy outlines in 
Nature, but fully revealed in Jesus Christ. We have 
beheld It in the example of Christ shewn us in the Law ; 
in His Teaching given us in the Gospel and the Comfort- 
able Words ; but chiefly in His Cross and Passion 
brought so vividly before us in the Prayer of Consecration. 
For this vision of Glory, the central shrine of which is 
Ineffable Love, we give praise, blessing, worship, and 
adoration. 

Praise to the Son and the Holy Ghost, — But though so 
uplifting in Itself, It fills us with shame as we think of 
what we are, even at our best. Hence our appeal to Him 
Who knows our weakness, for His never-ceasing Pity. 
Cleansing, as He does daily and hourly, the world from 
its sin. He will purify and strengthen us. To none other 
but Him can we turn, for He only is holy, He only is the 
Lord, He only with the Holy Ghost is Most High in 
the Glory of God. 



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S^Ije Gloria hx ^mbi$. 

GLORY be to God on high, 
And on earth Peace, 
Good Will towards men. 

We praise Thee, 
W^e bless Thee, 
We worship Thee, 
We glorify Thee, 

We give thanks to Thee for Thy Great Glory, 

O Lord God, Heavenly King, God The Father Almighty. 

O Lord, The Oniy-Begotten Son, Jesus Christ ; 
O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, 
That takest away the sins of the world, 
Have mercy upon us. 

Thou That takest away the sins of the world, 
Have mercy upon us. 

Thou That takest away the sins of the world. 
Receive our prayer. 

Thou That sittest at the Right Hand of God the Father, 
Have mercy upon us. 

For Thou only art Holy ; 

Thou only art The Lord ; 

Thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, 

Art Most High in the Glory of God the Father. Amen, 



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130 instructions anb JDebotions. 



IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

BEFORE THE MERCY SEAT. 

He lifted up His Hands and blessed them. My peace I give 
unto you ; not as the world giveth give I unto you. 

The Benediction. — This is Christ's last gift to you 
before you go back to the world. Every Eucharist is not 
only a means of strength, but of growth in the knowledge 
and love of GoD and of His Son Jesus Christ. 

The object of our Lord's gift of Peace is that it may 
guard our hearts against everything that may disturb the 
realization of that love or the increase of that knowledge. 

The '* Blessing of GoD Almighty" we possess as our 
own in the Eucharistic Gift we have received. The 
Church, in the Name of her Head, prays that It may 
never leave us, but remain amongst us forever. 



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THE Peace of God, which passeth all understanding;, 
keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and 
love of God, and of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord : 

And the Blessing of GoD Almighty, the Father, the 
Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you, and remain 
with you always. Amen, 



THANKSGIVING AFTER HOLY COM- 
MUNION. . 



Instruction. — Do not be in any hurry to leave the 
Church. Try to gather up all that has been done for you. 
Recall the lesson of the Gospel, the assurance of the 
Absolution, the deep thoughts and feelings when you 
received the Body and Blood of the Lord, and pray that 
they may remain with you at least through the day. 

Think also of what you have done : You have offered 
yourself and all you have, your work, your time, your 
thought to God. You have done this in union with the 
adorable Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Pray that you may 
not belie either your words or your actions, but that you 
may live and walk as one who is consecrated to the service 
of God. 

And, above all, remember the counsel of the Church : 
Feed on Hijn by faith with thanksgiving.'^ Make 
much of what you have received by meditation and acts 
of faith. Try and give ten minutes for contemplation on 
some word of the Gospel before you go to rest. Cultivate 
a thankful spirit. Realize unceasingly that God's favour 
and goodness are assured to you, and that you are an heir 
of everlasting life, and so in everything give thanks." 

Prayers that may be said after the Benediction. — 

I. For obedience to the Gospel. — O God, Who hast sounded 
into our ears Thy divine and salutary oracles, illuminate 
the souls of us sinners to the comprehension of that which 
has been before read, so that we may not only be seen to 
be hearers of spiritual things but doers of good works, 
following after faith without guile, blameless life, con- 
versation without charge of guilt, through Jesus Christ our 
Lord. 

2. For obedience to the heavenly Vision of God's glory. — 
O Lord Jesus Christ, Who hast blessed us with heavenly 



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gifts, grant that the ears which have heard the voice of 
Thy songs may never hear the voice of clamor and dis- 
pute. Grant also that the eyes which have seen Thy 
great love may also behold Thy blessed hope ; that the 
tongues which have sung the Sanctus may speak the 
truth. Grant that the feet which have walked in the 
Church may walk in the region of light ; that the bodies 
which have tasted Thy living Body may be restored 
in newness of life. Who livest and reignest with the 
Father and the Holy Spirit, ever One GoD, world with- 
out end. 

3. For strength for our journey. — O GRACIOUS and 
merciful Father, Who didst send Thine Angel and feed 
Thy servant Elijah with heavenly food, so that "he arose 
and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that 
meat forty days and^ forty nights unto Horeb, the Mount 
of God " ; we praise and bless Thy Holy Name for that 
Thou hast fed Thy servants this day with the Bread of 
Life, and refreshed their fainting souls with the fruit of 
the Heavenly Vine. Lead us on our way, w^e pray Thee, 
in the strength of this Food, that we faint not nor be 
weary in well-doing. Give us the grace of perseverance, 
that we may travel safely through the wilderness, until 
we come to the Mount of God, the heavenly Zion ; 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

4. For a 7'eve7'ent ca>'e of that ivhich we have received. — 
O God, Who in this wonderful Sacrament hast left us a 
memorial of Thy Son's Passion ; grant us, we beseech 
Thee, so to reverence the sacred mysteries of His Body 
and Blood, that we may ever receive within ourselves the 
fruits of His Redemption ; Who livest and reignest with 
Thee and the Holy Spirit, ever One God, world without 
end. Amen. 

Psalms, Hymns, and Acts of Praise. — The Mag- 
nificat : Te Deum ; Nunc Dimittis ; Psalms ciii., cL 
Hymns, 7, 8. 



134 3;i]anksgimng after QTotttmunion. 



AN OFFICE OF THANKSGIVING AFTER COMMUNION. 
A fter the Old English Use, 



Antiphon. Let us sing the 
Song of the Three Children, 
which they sang as they blessed 
the Lord in the furnace of fire. 

Canticle. 
Benedicite, oin7iia opera. 

OALL ye Works of the 
Lord, bless ye the Lord : 
praise Him, and magnify Him 
for ever. 

O ye Angels of the Lord, bless 
ye the Lord : praise Him, and 
magnify Him for ever. 

O ye Children of Men, bless 
ye the Lord : praise Him, and 
magnify Him for ever. 

O let Israel bless the Lord : 
praise Him, and magnify Him 
for ever. 

O ye Priests of the Lord, 
bless ye the Lord : praise Him, 
and magnify Him for ever. 

O ye Servants of the Lord, 
bless ye the Lord : praise Him, 
and magnify Him for ever. 

O ye Spirits and Souls of the 
Righteous, bless ye the Lord : 
praise Him, and magnify Him 
for ever. 



O ye holy and humble Men of 
heart, bless ye the Lord : praise 
Him, and magnify Him for 
ever. 

O Ananias, Azarias, and 
Misael, bless ye the Lord : 
praise Him, and magnify Him 
for ever. 

Glory be to the Father. 

Ps. cl. Laudate Dominum. 

PRAISE God in His holi- 
ness : praise Him in the 
firmament of His power. 

Praise Him in His noble acts: 
praise Him according to His 
excellent greatness. 

Praise Him in the sound of 
the trumpet : praise Him upon 
the lute and harp. 

Praise Him in the cymbals and 
dances : praise Him upon the 
strings and pipe. 

Praise Him upon the well- 
tuned cymbals : praise Him 
upon the loud cymbals. 

Let everything that hath 
breath : praise the Lord. 
Glory be to the Father. 



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The Song of Symeon. 
Nunc Dim at is. 

LORD, now lettest Thou Thy 
servant depart in peace : 
according to Thy word. 

For mine eyes have seen : 
Thy salvation, 

Which Thou hast prepared : 
before the face of all people ; 

To be a light to lighten the 
Gentiles : and to be the glory of 
Thy people Israel. 
Glory be to the Father. 
Antiphon. Let us sing the 
song of the Three Children, 
which they sang as they blessed 
the Lord in the furnace of fire. 
Lord have mercy upon us. 
Christ have mercy upon us. 
Lord have mercy upon us. 

QUR Father. 

Let us bless God, Father, Son, 
and Holy Ghost. Yea, let zis 
praise Him, and magnify Hi^n 
for ever. 

Blessed art Thou, O Lord, in 
the highest. Gloriozts and ever 
worthy to be praised. 

The Holy Trinity bless and 
keep us. Ame7t. 

Enter not into judgement 



with Thy servant, O Lord. 

For in Thy sight shall no man 
living be justified. 

Turn us again. Thou Lord 
God of Hosts. Show the light 
of Thy countena7ice., and ive 
shall be whole. 

O Lord, hear my prayer. A nd 
let my crying come unto Thee. 

The Lord be with you. And 
with thy spirit. 

Let us pray. 

OGOD, Who for Thy Three 
Servants didst assuage the 
flames of fire, mercifully grant 
that no unholy fires may in- 
flame us Thy servants. 

May the fire of the Holy 
Spirit, O Lord, cleanse .our 
hearts and reins that we may 
serve Thee with a chaste body, 
and please Thee with a pure 
mind. 

Prevent us, O Lord, in all our 
doings with Thy most gracious 
favour, and further us with Thy 
continual help, that in all our 
works begun, continued, and 
ended in Thee, we may glorify 
Thy Holy Name, and finally, by 
Thy mercy, obtain everlasting 
life. Thi'ough Jesus Christ our 
Lord, Amen. 



®ncl)ari5tic JJsaltns. 



PSALMS OF PREPARATION BEFORE COMMUNION. 
For Ordinary Use, 
Psalm LXXXIV. Quam dilecta I 

OHOW amiable are Thy dwellings : Thou Lord of 
hosts I 

2. My sou) hath a desire and longing to enter into the 
courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh rejoice in the 
living God. 

3. Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the 
swallow a nest where she may lay her young : even Thy 
altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. 

4. Blessed are they that dwell in Thy house : they will 
be alway praising Thee. 

5. Blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee : in 
whose heart are Thy ways. 

6. Who going through the vale of misery use it for a 
well : and the pools are filled with water. 

7. They will go from strength to strength : and unto 
the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion. 

8. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer : hearken, O 
God of Jacob. 

9. Behold, O God our defender : and look upon the 
face of Thine Anointed. 

10. For one day in Thy courts : is better than a 
thousand. 

11. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my 
God : than to dwell in the tents of ungodliness. 

12. For the Lord God is a light and defence : the 
Lord will give grace and worship, and no good thing shall 
He withhold from them that live a godly life. 

13. O Lord God of hosts : blessed is the man that 
putteth his trust in Thee. 



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For Use on Saints' Days. 
Psalm xv. Domine, quis habitabit? 

LORD, who shall dwell in Thy tabernacle : or who shall 
rest upon Thy holy hill ? 

2. Even he, that leadeth an uncorrupt life : and doeth 
the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his 
heart. 

3. He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done 
evil to his neighbour : and hath not slandered his neigh- 
bour. 

4. He that setteth not by himself, but is lowly in his 
own eyes : and maketh much of them that fear the Lord. 

5. He that sweareth unto his neighbour, and disap- 
pointeth him not : though it were to his own hindrance. 

6. He that hath not given his money upon usury : nor 
taken reward against the innocent. 

7. Whoso doeth these things : shall never fall. 

For Use in Pejiifential Seasons. 
Psalm cxxx. De profundis. 

OUT of the deep have I called unto Thee. O Lord : 
Lord, hear my voice. 

2. O let Thine ears consider well : the voice of my 
complaint. 

3. If Thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done 
amiss : O Lord, who may abide it ? 

4. For there is mercy with Thee : therefore shalt Thou 
be feared. 

5. I look for the Lord ; my soul doth wait for Him : 
in His word is my trust. 

6. My soul fieeth unto the Lord : before the morning 
watch» I say, before the morning watcti. 

7. O Israel, trust in the Lord, for with the Lord 
there is mercy : and with Him is plenteous redemption. 

8. And He shall redeem Israel : from all his sins. 



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ffiucliaristic Jpsalms. 



PSALMS OF THANKSGIVING AFTER COMMUNION. 
Psalm cm. Benedic, anima mea. 



RAISE the Lord, O my soul : and all that is within 



JT me praise His holy Name. 

2. Praise the Lord, O my soul : and forget not all His 
benefits ; 

3. Who forgiveth all thy sin : and healeth all thine in- 
firmities ; 

4. Who saveth thy life from destruction : and crowneth 
thee with mercy and loving-kindness ; 

5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things : making 
thee young and lusty as an eagle. 

6. The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment : 
for all them that are oppressed with wrong. 

7. He shewed His ways unto Moses : His works unto 
the children of Israel. 

8. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy : long- 
suffering, and of great goodness. 

9. He will not alway be chiding : neither keepeth He 
His anger for ever. 

10. He hath not dealt with us after our sins : nor re- 
warded us according to our wickedness. 

11. For look how high the heaven is in comparison of 
the earth : so great is His mercy also toward them that 
fear Him. 

12. Look how wide also the east is from the west : so far 
hath He set our sins from us. 

13. Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children : even 
so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear Him. 

14. For He knoweth whereof we are made : He remem- 
bereth that we are but dust. 

15. The days of man are but as grass : for he flourisheth 
as a flower of the field. 




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16. For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone : 
and the place thereof shall know it no more. 

17. But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for 
ever and ever upon them that fear Him : and His right- 
eousness upon children's children. 

iS. Even upon such as keep His covenant : and think 
upon His commandments to do them. 

19. The Lord hath prepared His seat in heaven : and 
His kingdom ruleth over all. 

20. O praise the Lord, ye angels of His, ye that excel 
in strength : ye that fulfil His commandment, and hearken 
unto the voice of His words. 

21. O praise the Lord, all ye His hosts : ye servants of 
His that do His pleasure. 

22. O speak good of the Lord, all ye works of His, in 
all places of His dominion : praise thou the Lord, O my 
soul. 



HE Lord is my shepherd : therefore can I lack 



nothing:. 

2. He shall feed me in a green pasture : and lead me 
forth beside the waters of comfort. 

3. He shall convert my soul : and bring me forth in the 
paths of righteousness, for His Name's sake. 

4. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow 
of death, I will fear no evil : for Thou art with me ; Thy 
rod and Thy staff comfort me. 

5. Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them 
that trouble me : Thou hast anointed my head with oil, 
and my cup shall be full. 

6. But Thy loving-kindness and mercy shall follow me 
all the days of my life ; and I will dwell in the house of 
the Lord for ever. 

Glory be, etc. 



Psalm xxiii. Doviinus regit me. 




®ucl)ari6tic %mns. 



A Hymn of Preparation. 

JUST as I am, without one plea, 
But that Thy Blood was shed for me, 
And that Thou bidd'st me come to Thee, 

O Lamb of God, I come. 
Just as I am, though tossed about 
With many a conflict, many a doubt, 
Fighting's and fears within, without, 

O Lamb of God, I come. 
Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind ; 
Sight, riches, healing of the mind, 
Yea. all I need, in Thee to find, 

O Lamb of God, I come. 
Just as I am ; Thou wilt receive. 
Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve ; 
Because Thy promise I believe, 

O Lamb of God, I come. 
Just as I am, Thy love unknown 
Has broken every barrier down ; 
Now to be Thine, yea, Thine alone, 

O Lamb of God, I come. 
Just as I am, of that free love 
The breadth, length, depth, and height to prove, 
Here for a season, then above, 

O Lamb of God, I come. Amen. 

Charlotte Elliott. 
For a Realization of the Passion. 

COME, Thou everlasting Spirit, 
Bring to every thankful mind 
All the Saviour's dying merit, 

All His sufferings for mankind ; 
True Recorder of His Passion, 
Now the living faith impart, 
Now reveal His great salvation. 

Preach His Gospel to our heart. 
Come, Thou witness of His dying. 

Come, remembrancer Divine, 
Let us feel Thy power applying 
Christ to every^ soul and mine ; 
Let us groan Thine inward groaning, 

Look on Him we pierced and grieve ; 
All receive the grace-atoning. 

All the sprinkled Blood receive. Amen. 
Hyjnns o>i the Lord's Supper^'''' J. and C. Wesley. 



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A Hymn of Praise for the Passion. 

WHEN I survey the wondrous Cross 
On which the Prince of glory died, 
My richest gain I count but loss, 
And pour contempt on all my pride. 

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast 
Save in the Cross of Christ my God ; 

AH the vain things that charm me most, 
I sacrifice them to His Blood. 

See from His Head, His Hands, His Feet, 
Sorrow and love flow mingling down ; 

Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, 
Or thorns compose so rich a crown ? 

Were the whole realm of nature mine, 
That were an offering far too small ; 

Love so amazing, so Divine, 
Demands my soul, my life, my all. 

To Christ, Who won for sinners grace 

By bitter grief and anguish sore, 
Be praise from all the ransomed race 

For ever and for evermore. Amen. 

Dr. Watts. 



After the Consecration. 

n^HEE we adore, O hidden Saviour, Thee, 
1 Who in Thy Sacrament dost deign to be ; 
Both flesh and spirit at Thy Presence fail, 
Yet here Thy Presence we devoutly hail, 

O blest Memorial of our dying Lord, 
Who living Bread to men doth here afford ! 
O may our souls for ever feed on Thee, 
And Thou, O Christ, for ever precious be. 

Fountain of goodness, Jesu, Lord and God, 
Cleanse us, unclean, with Thy most cleansing Blood ; 
Increase our faith and love, that we may know 
The hope and peace which from Thy Presence flow. 

O Christ, Whom now beneath a veil we see, 
May what we thirst for soon our portion be. 
To gaze on Thee unveiled, and see Thy Face, 
The vision of Thy glory and Thy grace. Amen. 

S. Thomas Aquinas. 



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®ucl]aristic ^^Qxtim. 



Pleading the Oblation of Christ. 

AND now, O Father, mindful of the love 
That bought us, once for all, on Calvary's tree, 
And having- with us Him that pleads above, 

We here present, we here spread forth to Thee 
That only offering perfect in Thine eyes, 
The one true, pure, immortal sacrifice. 

Look. Father, look on His anointed face, 

And only look on us as found in Him ; 
Look not on our misusings of Thy grace. 

Our prayer so languid, and our faith so dim ; 
For lo ! between our sins and their reward. 
We set the passion of Thy Son our Lord. 

And then for those, our dearest and our best, 
By this prevailing presence we appeal : 

Oh. fold them closer to Thy mercy's breast ! 
Oh. do Thine utmost for their souls' true weal ! 

From tainting mischief keep them white and clear. 

And crown Thy gifts with strength to persevere. 

And so we come ; oh, draw us to Thy feet. 
Most patient Saviour, Who canst love us still ! 

And by this food, so awful and so sweet, 
Deliver us from every touch of ill ; 

In Thine own service make us glad and free, 

And grant us never more to part with Thee. Amen. 

Dr. Bright, 

A fter Reception. 

JESU, gentlest Saviour, Multiply our graces, 

Thou art in us now^ Chiefly love and fear. 

Fill us with Thy Goodness, And, dear Lord, the chiefest, 
Till our hearts o'erflow. Grace to persevere. 

Dr. F. W. F.\ber. 

A UTHOR of Life Divine, 

r\ Who hast a Table spread, 
Furnished with mystic Wine 

And everlasting Bread, 
Preserve the life Thyself hast given, 
And feed and train us up for heaven. 

Our needy souls sustain 

With fresh supplies of love, 
Till all Thy life we gain. 

And all Thy fulness prove. 
And strengthened by thy perfect grace, 
Behold without a veil Thy Face. Amen. 

John Wesley. 



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Self- Oblation . 

TAKE my life, and let it be 
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee ; 
Take my moments and my days, 
Let them flow in ceaseless praise. 
Take my hands, and let them move 
At the impulse of Thy love. 
Take my feet, and let them be 
Swift and beautiful for Thee. 

Take my voice, and let me sing 
Always, only, for my King ; 
Take my lips, and let them be 
Filled with messages from Thee, 

Take my silver and my gold ; 
Not a mite would I withhold. 
Take my intellect, and use 
Every power as Thou shalt choose. 

Take my heart, it is Thine Own ; 
It shall be Thy royal throne. 
Take my will, and make it Thine : 
It shall be no longer mine. 

Take my love : my Lord, I pour 
At Thy Feet its treasure-store. 
Take myself, and I will be 
Ever, only, all for Thee. Amen. 

Frances Ridley Havergal. 



GLORY be to Jesus, 
Who, in bitter pains, 
Poured for me the Life-blood 
From His sacred veins. 



Grace and life eternal 
In that Blood I find ; 
Blest be His compassion, 

Infinitely kind. 
Blest through endless ages 

Be the precious stream, 
Which from endless torments 
Did the world redeem. 

Lift ye then your voices ; 

Swell the mighty flood ; 
Louder still and louder 
Praise the precious Blood 



A Hymn of Praise. 

Abel's blood for vengeance 

Pleaded to the skies ; 
But the Blood of Jesus 
For our pardon cries. 
Oft as it is sprinkled 

On our guilty hearts, 
Satan in confusion 

Terror-struck departs ; 
Oft as earth exulting 

Wafts its praise on high, 
Angel-hosts rejoicing 
Make their glad reply. 



Amen. 



Rev. Edward Caswall: From the Latin- 



ADDITIONAL ACTS OF DEVOTION. 

PRAYERS TO OUR LORD BEFORE RECEPTION. 

For Healing Virtue. — O Lord Jesu, Who didst heal 
the woman who touched the hem of Thy garm.ent in the 
crowd, I would stretch out the hand of faith and touch 
Thee even now. Oh, let the healing virtue come forth and 
make me whole ; for Thine own mercy's sake. Amen. 

For the Sense of Christ's Presence. — O Lord 
Jesu, Who wast known to the two disciples at Emmaus in 
the breaking of bread, have mercy upon me ; open mine 
eyes that I may see ; and make Thyself known to Thine 
unworthy servant in this breaking of bread. Hear me, O 
Jesu, who livest and reignest with the Father and the 
Holy Spirit, one God evermore. Amen. 

Against the Besetting Sin. — O merciful Saviour, 
W^ho hast compassion on our weakness and didst pray for 
Thy disciple that his faith might not utterly fail ; Have 
mercy upon me whom Thou knowest to be so often 
tempted to be . . , , and give me Thy special grace 
that this day I may be kept free from all . . . and 
be very .... Help me, O Lord, that I fall not, 
or, if I fall, bring me back quickly to Thee and teach me 
to love Thee better for Thy tender mercies' sake. Amen. 



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COMMUNION WITH OUR LORD AFTER RECEPTION. 

LIGHT of Light and God of God, Who didst bow Thy 
holy heavens, and descend to earth for the salva- 
tion of the world, out of Thy love of man ; extend Thine 
Almighty right hand, and send out Thy blessings on us 
all. Hallow our bodies and souls by this Sacrifice which 
we have received, and guide our steps into the paths of 
righteousness, that we may behave ourselves according to 
Thy will, and observe Thy commandments and do them 
all the days of our life, and come to a blessed end, and 
sing a ceaseless hymn with Thy saints to Thee, and Thy 
Father, and Thy Holy Spirit. 

WE thank Thee, Loving Master, Benefactor of our 
souls, for having this day admitted us to Thy 
heavenly and immortal mysteries. Guide our path 
aright ; establish us in Thy fear ; watch over our life ; 
make safe our goings. 

IT is finished and done, so far as in our power, Christ 
our God, the mystery of Thy dispensation. For we 
have held remembrance of Thy death, we have seen the 
figure of Thy resurrection, we have been filled with Thy 
endless life, we have enjoyed I'hy uncloying dainties ; 
which graciously vouchsafe all of us, in the world to come. 

BEHOLD, Lord, I now have Thee, Who hast all things ; 
T possess Thee, who possessest all things and canst 
do all things. Therefore, O my God and my All, do 
Thou wean my heart from all other things beside Thee, 
for in them there is nothing but vanity and vexation of 
spirit. May my heart be fixed in Thee alone, may my 
rest be in Thee alone, for in Thee is my treasure — in 
Thee is the sovereign Truth, true happiness, and ever- 
lasting Life. 

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146 ^^bbitional IDetJotionis. 



COMMUNION WITH THE FATHER AFTER RECEPTION. 

OLORD, I beseech Thee, let this most excellent Sacri- 
fice which I have this day joined in pleading and 
presenting before Thee be accepted of Thee for the 
remission of my sins and those of the whole world. By 
It do Thou restore all the ruined places of my soul, and 
supply all my need. By It do Thou mortify in me what- 
ever displeaseth Thee, and make me a man after Thine 
own heart. By It do Thou conform my w^hole spirit and 
soul and body unto the vSpirit and Soul and Body of the 
holy manhood of Thy Son, and enlighten me wholly by 
the Light of His Perfect Godhead. By It vouchsafe that I 
may be established in Thee, may love Thee perfectly and 
perseveringly, and be closely united with Thee, being 
wholly transformed into Kis image to the glory of His 
Holy Name, which is called upon us. Through the same 
Thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

JOOK, gracious Father, on the Face of Thine Anointed, 
J and forasmuch as this is Thy Beloved Son, in Whom 
Thou art evermore well pleased, Who now is most closely 
united unto me, I humbly entreat that Thou wouldest look 
upon me also with the eyes of Thy mercy. Under His 
guardianship and protection, under the shadow of His 
merits I appear before Thee, that as Thou lookest chiefly 
upon Him, Thou mayest also favorably look on me who 
belong unto Him as His servant for ever. Grant this for 
His sake. Amen. 



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PRAYERS EXPRESSING OUR EUCHARISTIC 
INTENTION. 

(Note. — These may be said immediately after receiving the 
Eucharist.^ 



ROSPER Thou the work of my hands, O Lord ; O 



r prosper Thou my handy work. Guide me with Thy 
counsel. 

To the greater glory of Thy Name, O God, I ap- 
proach this work, and offer it to Thee in union with the 
infinite merits of Jesus Christ. 

On completing a Work, 

HEAVENLY Father, I commend unto Thee this 
work of mine to be perfected and finished by Thee, 
and I offer it unto Thee in union with the perfect works 
of Thy Son Jesus Christ. 

Thanksgiving for Special Answers to Prayer, 

GLORY be to Thee, O Lord, for Thy mercy. Praise 
the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, praise 
His Holy Name. What reward shall I give unto the 
Lord for all the benefits that He hath done unto me? I 
will offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay my vows unto 
the Most Highest. 



IF it be Thy will I shall be in darkness, be Thou 
blessed ; if it be Thy will I should be in light, be 
Thou again blessed. If Thou vouchsafe to comfort me, 
be Thou blessed ; and if Thou wilt have me afflicted, be 



On beginning a new Work, 




In Anxiety or Distress of Mind, 



14^ '^bbitional ?!)et)0tions. 



Thou equally blessed. In union with the Oblation of 
Jesus Christ I resign myself to Thy blessed will, whether 
it be for life or death ; only praying Thee that I may 
know what Thou wouldest have me to do, and may find 
strength to do it. 

1)1 'J ^rouble' or Pain. 

LORD, I ofTer up to Thee all that I now suffer or may 
have to suffer, to be united to the suffering of my 
Saviour, and to be sanctified by Mis Passion. Oh, what 
great troubles hast Thou shewed me ; yet didst Thou turn 
again and refresh me I 

Before a Journey. 

OGOD, Who didst cause the children of Israel to pass 
with dry feet through the midst of the sea, grant to 
us. we beseech Thee, a prosperous journey and a peaceful 
time ; that accompanied by Thy Holy Angels we may 
arrive safely at the place whither we are going, and finally 
through Thy mercy, enter the haven of eternal rest. 
Amen. 



ANNIVERSARIES. 
{Prayers that ??iay be said for ourselves or others.) 
Birthday. — N'ezu Year s Day. 

BLESSED and eternal God, I give Thee praise and 
glory for Thy great mercy unto me in bringing me to 
the beginning of another year. Let my years, O Lord, 
be so many degrees of nearer approach unto Thee, and be 
Thou my strength and viy guide unto death ; and merci- 
fully grant that / may so apply 7ny heart unto wisdom, 
that after a holy and blessed life here on earth, /may be 
brought unto a glorious eternity, through Jesus Christ our 
Lord. 



^Airbitional IDetJotions. 



149 



Baptism, 

I YIELD Thee humble thanks, O heavenly Father, 
that Thou hast vouchsafed to call ;/^^ to the knovi-' 
edge of Thy grace, and faith in Thee ; mcrease this 
knowledge, and confirm this faith in jne evermore. Give 
unto 7ne Thy grace ; that, being born again, and made an 
heir of everlasting salvation, through our Lord Jesus 
Christ, / may continue Thy servant, and attain Thy 
promises ; through the same Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, 
Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the 
same Holy Spirit, everlastingly. Amen. 

Confirmation. 

I THANK Thee, O my God, for Thy goodness to me, 
and especially for Thy gifts in Confirmation. Help 
me^ I beseech Thee, to bring forth in my life those fruits 
of the Spirit whicti belong to Thy true children. Make me 
true, loving, pure, humble, and forbearing in all my 
thoughts and \vords. and grant that / may serve Thee 
faithfully unto my iife's end ; through Jesus Christ our 
Lord. Amen. 

Ordination. 

OGOD. by Whose command the order of all time runs 
its course ; look graciously upon me Thy servant 
whom Thou hast been pleased to promote to the order of 
the Presbyterate ; and that my service may be pleasing 
unto Thee, do Thou mercifully preserve in me Thy gifts ; 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Wedding- Day, 

ALMIGHTY God, Who at the beginning did create 
our first parents, Adam and Eve. and did sanctify 
and join them together in marriage ; Pour upon us the 



ISO ^bbitional Dcnotions. 



riches of Thy grace, sanctify and bless us that we may 
please Thee both in l)ody and soul, and live together in 
holy love unto our lives' end ; through Jesus Christ our 
Lord. Amen. \ 



ON saints' days. 

.ALMIGHTY Gon, Who hast knit together Thine 
elect in one communit)n and fellowship, in the mysti- 
cal body of Thy Son Christ our LORD ; Grant us grace so 
to follow Thy blessed Saints in all virtuous and godly 
living, that we may come to those unspeakable joys, which 
Thou hast prepared for them that unfeignedly love Thee ; 
through Jesus Christ our LoRD. Amen, 

THANKSGIVINGS. 
For the Harvest. 

MOST merciful Father, Who hast blessed the labours 
of the husbandman in the returns of the fruits of the 
earth ; We give Thee humble and hearty thanks for this 
Thy bounty ; beseeching Thee to continue Thy loving- 
kindness to us, that our land may still yield her increase, 
to Thy glory and our comfort ; through Jesus Christ our 
Lord. Amen. 

For any Particular Blessing. 

OGOD, Who art the giver of life, of health, and of 
safety ; I bless Thy Name, that Thou hast been 
pleased to . . . Gracious art Thou, O Lord, and 
full of compassion to the children of men. May my 
heart be duly impressed with a sense of Thy merciful 
goodness, and may / devote the residue of my days to an 
humble, holy, and obedient walking before Thee ; through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 



INTERCESSIONS. 



THE CHURCH THAT IS IN THY HOUSE. 
Pray one for another that ye may be healed. 
A Prayer for the P^amily. 

VISIT, I beseech Thee, O Lord, my home and all my 
family, and drive far from it all the snares of the 
enemy, especially all strife, envy, and contention. Let 
Thy holy Angels dwell therein, and preserve us in peace, 
and let Thy blessing be upon us evermore. Through Jesus 
Christ our Lord. Amen. 

For Father or Mother. 

OGOD, Who hast commanded us to honour our father 
and our mother, mercifully hear me as I commend 
to Thy loving mercy my father and mother ; reward them 
with Thine eternal good things for ail the care, trouble, 
and grief they have borne on my account ; give them here 
all things needful for soul and body, and hereafter join 
me with them to the company of Thy saints and elect. 
Through Christ our Lord. Amen. 

For Husband or Wife. 

OGOD, Who hast joined . . . with me in the 
Holy Estate of Matrimony, give us grace to love 
one another with a holy love, as Christ has loved His 
spouse the Church. May we live together as heirs of the 
grace of eternal life [and bring up the children which 
Thou hast given to us m Thy faith and fear], and here- 
after be amongst the members of that Church triumphant 
which Christ will receive to Himself to be with Him for- 
ever, for the same Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. 



152 intercessions. 



Voi/fi^or Children. 

BLESS, O Lord, our clear children . . . We 
have dedicated them to Thee in Holv Baptism, 
and we earnestly entreat '1 hee that the Grace then vouch- 
safed to them may ever abide and increase within them. 
Give us wisdom from above, so that we may bring them 
up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. May 
we, by our instruction and example, help and not hinder 
them in the way of Godliness, and may both we and they 
ever remain in the number of Thy faithful and elect 
children. 'I'hnjucrh Thy Holy Child, Jesus our Lord. 
Ami-n. 

For Brothi)-s and Sisters. 

OHEAX'ENLY Father, strengthen me and my brothers 
and sisters in the holy bonds of Thy love, by drav.- 
ing us all to an increasing love of Thyself, till the brother- 
hood which has begun on earth is perfected in heaven. 
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

For a Godchild. 

BLESS, O Lord, my Godchild. . . . Grant that all 
things belonging to the Spirit may live and grow in 
hi7}i, so that he may have victory over the world, the 
flesh, and the devil, and may be everlastingly rewarded. 
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

For a Sick Child. 

\ LMIGHTY God, and merciful Father, to Whom alone 
rv belong the issues of life and death ; Look down 
from heaven, we humbly beseech Thee, with the eyes of 
mercy, upon the sick child for whom our prayers are 
desired. Deliver hi?n, O Lord, in Thy good appointed 



153 



time, from his bodily pain, and visit him with Thy salva- 
tion ; that if it .should be Thy good pleasure to prolong 
his days here on earth, Jie may live to Thee, and be an 
instrument of Thy glory, by serving Thee faithfully, and 
doing good in Jiis generation. Or else receive him into 
those heavenly habitations, where the souls of those who 
sleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and felicity. 
Grant this, O Lord, for the love of Thy Son, our Saviour 
Jesus Christ. Amen. 

Fo7' Friends i^t Darkness. 

ALMIGHTY God, ue beseech Thee to hear our 
prayers for all those our friends {espec. . . .) 
who know Thee not or neglect to serve Thee ; that Thou 
wouldest grant to them true repentance and an earnest 
longing for Thy service. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 

For Servants, 

GRACIOUS Father, bless my servants, and make 
them Thine ; give them grace to serve Thee first, 
with faithfulness, soberness, and diligence. Make me 
ever willing, and in some measure able, to repay unto 
them the time and the strength which they either have 
spent or shall spend to do me service, even for Jesus 
Christ His sake. Amen. 



THE CHURCH THAT IS IN THY PARISH. 

Seek the peace of the city . . . and pray unto the 
Lord for it. 

For the Parish Priest. 

OGOD, the Pastor and Guide of all Thy people, look 
favourably on Thy servant . . . whom Thou 
hast willed to preside as Pastor over Thy Church in this 



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3ntcrccGGions. 



Parish ; grant, we beseech Thee, that both by word and 
by example he may profit those over whom he is set, that, 
together with his Hock, he may attain eternal life, through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

D It ring the Vacancy of a Parish. 

WE most humbly beseech Thee, O Lord, that of 
Thine unbounded goodness. Thou wouldest grant 
unto Thy Church in this place, a Pastor who by his godly 
care for us may be ever pleasing unto Thee, and may be 
alway diligent for the right governance and instruction 
of Thy people, to the glory of Thy Holy Name. Who 
Iivest and reignest One God, world without end. Amen. 

For a Good JVork. 

VOUCHSAFE, we beseech Thee, merciful Lord, to 
prosper with Thy blessing the work of . . . 
and all others designed to promote Thy Glory and the 
good of souls. Grant that those who serve Thee in this 
work may set Thy Holy Will ever before them, and do 
that which is well pleasing in Thy sight, and persevere in 
Thy service unto the end, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 

For the newly Confirmed. 

OHOLY GHOST, Who hast vouchsafed to choose our 
bodies for Thy temple, quicken them unto newness 
of life in union with the Only-Begotten Son, reveal Thy 
gracious indwelling in every one of us, and especially 
now we pray for those upon whom Thou hast recently 
descended, that they may by Thy presence be strength- 
ened against every enemy, and enlightened with a true 
knowledge of things divine, so that living in the fear and 
love of God they may be purified from earthly corruption, 
and attain to dwell in the blessed fellowship of the saints, 
who with the Father and the Son art blessed and glorified 
now and for evermore. Amen. 



MntcxtcBBiom. 



Fo7' those engaged in Works of Mercy. 

BLESS, O Lord, we beseech Thee, all those who are 
devoted to serve Thee in works of charity, as well 
for the training of the young as for the reclaiming of the 
fallen {espec. . . .)• Also those who are occupied in 
visiting the sick, the poor, and the ignorant {espec. . . .). 
Accept their labours, and grant that while they sympa- 
thize with others, in their necessity and sorrow, they may 
bring them to know the joys of the Divine Life in which 
they live — Who livest and reignest, one God, world without 
end. Amen. 

For the Sick and Dyiitg. 

GRACIOUS Lord Jesus, Who didst vouchsafe to 
die on the Cross for us ; remember, we beseech 
Thee, all Sick and Dying Persons {espec. . . .) ; and 
grant that they may omit nothing which is necessary to 
make their peace with Thee before they die. Deliver 
them, O Lord, from the malice of the Devil, and from all 
sin and evil, and grant them a happy end, for Thy loving 
mercy's sake. Amen. 

For School Children. 

POUR down Thy blessing, O heavenly Father, upon 
those children whom Thou hast committed to my 
charge, and give me grace to train them in Thy faith, 
fear, and love, that as they grow in years they may grovv^ 
in grace, and may hereafter be found in the number of 
Thine elect children. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 

For the Conversion of Sinners. 

ALMIGHTY God, we beseech Thee to hear our 
prayers for such as sin against Thee, or neglect to 
serve Thee {espec. . . .), that Thou wouldest vouch- 
safe to bestow upon them true repentance and earnest long- 
ing for Thy service. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 



intercessions. 



For Suffer OS in Mi)id or Body, 

OLORD jKsrs Christ, our Sympathizing Saviour, 
Who for man didst bear the Agony and the Cross ; 
draw Thou near to Thy suffering servants, in their pain 
of body or trouble of mintl {cspec, . .) ; hallow all 
their crosses in this life, and crown them hereafter where 
all tears are wiped away ; where, with the Feather and 
the Holy Ghost, Thou livest and reignest. One GoD, 
world without end. Amt!!. 

For ariv lu/io Juii'r nsked our Fravers. 

STKKrCIi forth, G Lord, the right hand of Thy 
meicy upon Thy servants, that seeking Thee with 
their whole heart, they may have their needs supplied 
both in body and >oul. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 



FOR THF: church IN' THV DIOCESE. 

Ye that make me7ition of the Lord, keep not silence, and 
give /Jim no rest till He establish and make Jerusalem 
a praise on the earth. 

For the Bishop of the Diocese. 

OGOD, the Pastor and Ruler of Thy faithful servants, 
look down in mercy on Thy servant . . . our 
Bishop, to whom Thou hast given charge over this Dio- 
cese, and evermore guide, defend, comfort, sanctify, and 
save him ; and grant him by Thy grace so to advance in 
word and good example, that he may, wdth the flock com- 
mitted to him, attain to everlasting life ; through Jesus 
Christ our Lord. Amen. 



Jfnterccssions. 



157 



Du7'i7ig the Vacancy of a See. 

MAY Thy boundless loving-kindness, O Lord, grant 
to Thy Church a Bishop who shall be pleasing to 
Thee in holiness of life, and profitable to us in watchful- 
ness and zeal. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

At the Conseci'ation of a Church. 

OGOD, Who art Thyself the Author of the gifts that 
are to be dedicated to Thee, pour forth Thy bless- 
ing on this house of prayer: And of Thy mercy grant 
that Thy h^lp and defence may be enjoyed by all who 
shall call upon Thy Name therein. Through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. Amen. 

For Diocesan Societies in which we are specially 
interested. 

GRANT, O Lord, we pray Thee, to the Society of 
such an increase of numbers as shall best 
accomplish Thy holy will, and to the members the ful- 
ness of Thy blessing, that each according to His measure 
may promote Thy glory ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 

For Places spiritually destitute. 

ALMIGHTY God, have pity on our brethren who 
are perishing for lack of opportunities of grace. 
And grant that faithful Priests, ministering to Thine 
inheritance, may train the young, instruct the ignorant, 
tend the sick, win the hardened, reconcile the penitent, 
and perfect Thy Saints to the glory of Thy Holy Name ; 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

For Church Schools and Hoines of Mercy. 

VOUCHSAFE, we beseech Thee, merciful Lord, to 
prosper with Thy blessing all institutions designed 
for the promotion of Thy glory, and tlie good of souls 



Jintercessions. 



{espec. . .). (irant that those who serve Thee in 
religious houses, hospitals, and schools may set Thy holy 
Will ever before iln in, and do that which is well-pleasing 
ill Thy sight, and per-c xcic in 1 hy service unto the end ; 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

/•or those who are to be aiiniiittd into Holy Orders. 
^ To be used in the Weeks preceding the stated finies of Ordinnt/on 

ALMK'xHTV God, our heavenly Father, who ha>i \)\\r- 
chased to thyself an universal Church by the preci(jus 
blood of Thy dear Son ; Mercifull)- look upon the same, 
and at this lime -r) L,'uide lud L^overn llie minds of Thy 
servants the lli-hop- ;;nd I'a-tors of Thy tlock, that they 
may lay hand> -lul ienly (ui no man, but faithfuMy and 
wisely make choice of lit persons, to serve in the sacred 
Ministry of 'idi\- ("hurch. And to those who shall be 
ordained to anv holy function, <y\\i: Thy grace and 
heavenly benediction ; that botli by their life and doc- 
trine they may >ho\v f(jrth 'i"h}- glory, and set forward the 
salvation of all men ; through Je^us Christ our Lord. 
Amen . 



THi: CHL RCH THAI' I:S IX THV COUNTRY. 

I exiurrt I 'u re fore that supplicatio}is , prayers , intercessions^ 
and ;^i7 i)r^' of tJiauks tic made for all ineji. 

For the Scale. 

OLORD, our heavenly Father, the high and mighty 
Ruler of the universe, Who dost from Thy throne 
behold all the dwellers upon earth ; Most heartily we 
beseech Thee v/ith Thy favour to behold and bless Thy 
servant . . . and all others in authority ; and so 
replenish them with the grace of Thy Holy Spirit, that 
they may always incline to Thy will, and walk in Thy 
way. Endue them plenteously with heavenly gifts ; grant 
them in health and prosperity long to live ; and finally, 



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after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity; 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

For Home and Foreign Missions. 

OLORD Jesus Christ, Who didst charge Thine 
Apostles that they should preach the Gospel to 
every nation ; prosper, we pray Thee, all Missions both 
at home and abroad {espec. . . ; give them all 
things needful for their work, making them to be centres 
of spiritual life, to the quickening of many souls, and the 
glory of Thy holy Name. Support, guide, and bless the 
Clergy, who are called to labour in those parts of Thy 
vineyard, give them grace to witness to the Faith, endue 
them with burning zeal and love, make them patient 
under all disappointments, and meekly submissive under 
all persecutions, that they may turn many to righteousness, 
and may themselves win a Crown of everlasting glory, 
Who livest and reignest God for ever and ever. Amen. 

For Semijiaries and Schools of Theology. 

OTHOU true Light that lightest every man that 
Cometh into the world ; Do Thou in Thy mercy 
touch the hearts and lighten the understandings of all 
who are preparing for Thy ministry {espec. . . .) ; that 
they may readily acknowledge and cheerfully obey all that 
Thou w^ouldest have them believe and practise, to the 
benefit of Thy holy Church and their own salvation. 
Amen. 

A Prayer to he tised at the Meetings of Diocesan or 
National Synods. 

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, w^ho by Thy Holy 
Spirit didst preside in the Councils of the blessed 
Apostles, and hast promised, through Thy Son Jesus Christ, 
to be with Thy Church to the end of the world ; We be- 
seech Thee to be present with the Council of Thy Church 



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he7'e assembled in Thy Name and Presence. Save them 
from all error, ignorance, pride, and prejudice ; and of 
Thy great mercy vouchsafe, we beseech Thee, so to di- 
rect, sanctify, and govern tis in our present work, by the 
mighty power of the Holy Ghost, that the comfortable 
Gospel of Christ may be truly preached, truly received, 
and truly followed, in all places, to the breaking down 
the kingdom of sin, Satan, and death ; till at length the 
whole of Thy dispersed sheep, being gathered into one 
fold, shall become partakers of everlasting life ; through 
the merits and death of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen. 

For Fruitful Seasons. 
•i" To be used on Rogation- Sunday and the Rogation- days. 

ALMIGHTY God, Who hast blessed the earth that it 
should be fruitful and bring forth whatsoever is 
needful for the life of man, and hast commanded us to 
work with quietness, and eat our own bread ; Bless the 
labours of the husbandman, and grant such seasonable 
weather that we may gather in the fruits of the earth, and 
ever rejoice in Thy goodness, to the praise of Thy holy 
Name ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 



THE CHURCH CATHOLIC. 

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ; they shall prosper that 
love Thee. 

For the Holy Catholic Church. 

GRACIOUS Father, we humbly beseech Thee to bless 
Thy Holy Catholic Church, and fill it with truth and 
grace. Where it is corrupt, purge it ; where it is in error, 
direct it ; where anything is amiss, reform it ; where it is 
right, strengthen and confirm it ; where it is wanting, 
furnish it ; where it is divided and rent asunder, heal the 
breaches thereof ; O Thou Holy One of Israel, for Jesus 
Christ's sake. Amen. 



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For the Unity of the Church. 

OGOD, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, our only 
Saviour, the Prince of Peace ; Give us grace seri- 
ously to lay to heart the great dangers we are in by our 
unhappy divisions. Take away all hatred and prejudice, 
and whatsoever else may hinder us from godly union and 
concord : that as there is but one Body and one Spirit, 
and one hope of our calling, one Lord, one Faith, one 
Baptism, one God and Father of us all, so we may be all 
of one heart and of one soul, united in one holy bond of 
truth and peace, of faith and charity, and may with one 
mind and one mouth glorify Thee ; through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. Amen. 

For the Spread of the Church. 

ENLARGE Thy Kingdom, O God, and deliver the 
world from the dominion and tyranny of Satan. 
Hasten the time, which Thy Spirit hath foretold, when 
all nations, whom Thou hast made, shall worship Thee, 
and glorify Thy Name. Bless the good endeavours of 
those who strive to propagate the truth, and prepare the 
hearts of all men to receive it ; to the honour of Thy 
Holy Name. Amen. 

For Quickening of Zeal in Christians. 

OLORD, our Saviour, Who hast warned us that Thou 
wilt require much of those to whom much is given ; 
grant that we whose lot is cast in so goodly a heritage, 
may strive together the more abundantly, by prayer, by 
almsgiving, by fasting, and by every other appointed 
means, to extend to others what we so richly enjoy ; and 
as we have entered into the labours of other men, so to 
labour that, in their turn, other men may enter into ours, 
to the fulfilment of Thy Holy Will, and our own ever- 
lasting salvation. Amen. 
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intercessions. 



I'or Bishops on iJicir l^isitations. 

OLORD Jksu Christ, Who didst walk upon the sea of 
Galilee, Who didst calm the waves thereof, and 
safely bring Thy Apostles to the haven where they would 
be: W^ho also of Thy great love didst accompany Thy 
disciples journeying to Enimaus, and manifest Thyself to 
them ; we humbly beseech Thee to bless all Bishops en- 
gaged in visiting their dioceses, and those that journey ' 
with them. (}ive Thy holy angels charge over them to 
keep them in all their ways. Prosper their endeavours 
to spread the knowledge of the Gospel among the heathen ; 
and so fulfil our prayers for their safety and success, that 
they may glorify thee more and more, Who livest and 
reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one 
God, world without end. Amen. ^ 

For Missions to the Heathen. 

OLORD Jesu Christ, W^hose will it is that the multi- 
tude of the Gentiles should come to the knowledge 
of the truth through the preaching of Thy Gospel, be 
present, we beseech Thee, with those who make known 
Thy Name in heathen lands, and grant that those who 
have lived in the darkness of error may, by their ministry, | 
be brought to the knowledge of Thee, W^ho art the true | 
Light, to lighten every man that cometh into the world. 
Amen. 



THE CHURCH INVISIBLE. 

I'he Lord grant tnito him that he may find mercy of the 

Lord ifi that day. 

For a Father or Mother Departed. 

OGOD, Who hast commanded us to honour our li 
Parents, Remember Thy servants, my Father and ^ 
Mother, who have gone before us with the seal of faith, 



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and are sleeping in the sleep of peace. To them. O 
Lord, and all who rest in Christ, we pray Thee to grant 
a place of refreshment, light, and peace ; through Jesus 
Christ our Lord. Amen. 

A fter the Death of a Fi'iend. 

RECEIVE, we beseech Thee, O Lord, merciful 
Father, the Offering which we present before 
Thee ; and grant to the soul of Thy servant \^or hand- 
maid] . . . whom Thou hast delivered from the cor- 
ruption of the flesh, that in peace and rest he may await 
the Day of Resurrection ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 

On the Anniversary of the Death of a Friend. 

MOST merciful Father, Who hast been pleased to take 
unto Thyself the soul of this Thy servant \or this 
child] ; Grant to us who are still in our pilgrimage, and 
who walk as yet by faith, that having served Thee with 
constancy on earth, we may be joined hereafter with Thy 
blessed saints in glory everlasting ; through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. Amen. 

That zc-e inay profit by the Example of the Saints. 

pRANT, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that the 
V T examples of the Saints may stir us up to a better 
life, so that we who celebrate their solemnities may also 
imitate their actions ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. « 

That we 7nay attain to the Fellowship of the Saints. 

OGOD, Who permittest us to celebrate the commemo- 
ration of all Thy Saints, grant that we Thy servants 
may enjoy their fellowship in eternal gladness ; through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen, 



'^n ®fiicc of Gpiritnal (Communion. 



TXSTRrCTIOX. 

When hindered by some just cause from joining in the 
Church's Oblation at the time you are accustomed, it is 
well to make a Spiritual Act of Communion with the 
Church. The benefits of .so dointj are ^reat. Th(^ 
Churcli in her Office of the Communion of the Sick teaches 
us that "if a man, either by reason of extremity of sick- 
ness or for want of warning in due time to the Minister, 
or for lack of company to receive with him, or by any 
other just impediment, do not receive the Sacrament of 
Christ's Body and lilood. the Curate shall instruct him, 
that if he do truly repent him of his sins, and steadfastly 
believe that Jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the Cross 
for him, and shed His Blood for his redemption, earnestly 
remembering the benefits he hath thereby, and giving Him 
hearty thanks therefor, he doth eat and drink the Body 
and Blood of our Saviour Christ profitably to his soul's 
health, although he do not receive the Sacrament with his 
mouth.'' 

OUTLINE OF OFFICE. 
Thi zuhole or parts of this ?}iay he used, as fou7id con- 

Preparation. — Part of that given on pp. 74 and 75 
may be used. 

Part I. The Offering of Service (pp. 76-95). — If 
time be short, instead of the Decalogue^ use the following : 

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, 
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the 
first and' great commandment. And the second is like 
unto it ; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On 
these two commandments hang all the Law and the 
Prophets. 

Lord, have mercy upon me. 
, Christ, have mercy upon me. 
Lord, have mercy upon me. 



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In the offering of your Faith, your Ahns (which 
should be set aside for some Church purpose), and your 
Prayers, try to reaUze your union with those gathered 
round the Altar of your Church. 

Part II. The Offering of Praise (pp. 96-105). — In 
place of the Absolution substitute this short prayer : 

MAY the Almighty God have mercy upon me, pardon 
me all my sins, deliver me from all evil, and 
strengthen me in all good, and bring me to everlasting 
life, for Jesus Christ's sake. x\men. 

Part IIL Union with the Oblation of Christ.— In 

the place of the Prayer of Hu7?tble Access and the Prayer 
of Consecratioriy say the following : 



Make your Intentio7i. 

CHRIST my God and Saviour, Hindered (by reason 
of ... ) from joining in offering the Holy Oblation 
in Thy House, I desire, through Thy grace, to do this in 
remembrance of Thee, and in obedience to Thy command, 
as well as I am able. 

I do therefore this day join, in desire and spirit, with 
every Christian congregation in the world, which truly 
celebrates this holy Mystery. 



Offer Thanks to the Father, 

WITH them I join in giving my devoutest thanks to 
Thy Almighty Father and our gracious GoD, Who 
did not overlook lost mankind, but sent Thee, His only 
Son, to redeem us. and in Him has so abundantly blessed 
us — especially I thank Him for ... . 



i66 CfDlBBce of Spiritnal QTotnmtimon. 



Rehearse the Acts of Redemption. 

WITH them I call to remembrance what Thou hast 
done and suffered for us ; Thme Incarnation, Thy 
laborious Life, Thy bitter Passion, Thy Death and Resur- 
rection, the great deliverance Thou hast thereby wrought 
for all mankind, and the obligations Thou hast laid upon 
us. 

Worship the Saviour. 

I ACKNOWLEDGE, worship, and receive Thee, O Jesus, 
as our heavenly Teacher, as our Example and Pattern, 
as our only Mediator and Advocate with GoD, and as the 
Sovereign Judge of all mankind. 

Plead the Sacrifice. 

WITH Thy Church I join in pleading the merits of Thy 
all-sufficient Sacrifice with Thy Eternal Father. I 
rely upon that Sacrifice for the pardon of all my sins ; for 
the assistance of the Divine Grace ; for deliverance from 
the corruption of my own nature, and from the malice and 
snares of the devil ; for the fellowship of the Holy Ghost ; 
and for a blessed Resurrection ; the Lord Almighty, for 
Thy sake, being reconciled unto me. 

Offer yourself to the Lord. 

1 DEVOTE my spirit, soul, and body, to Thee, and to 
Thy service, beseeching Thee to give me Grace never 
wilfully to depart from Thy laws. 

Intercede for all Me7t. 

I JOIN with Thy Church, and plead the merits of Thy 
sacrifice, for all estates and conditions of men ; that 
none may deprive themselves of that happiness which Thou 
hast purchased by Thy Death : for all Christian Kings and 
Governors ; for all Bishops and Pastors, that they may 



QDfiSce of Spiritual dLommnnion. 167 



preserve the sacred rights committed to their trust ; for all 
that strive to propagate Thy Gospel ; for a primitive zeal 
in all that fear Thy Name ; for all that sit in darkness and 
error, or are destitute of necessary means of instruction ; 
for all that sincerely seek the truth; for all sinners, that 
they may have grace and strength to break their bonds ; 
for all that are in adversity ; for all that suffer wrongfully, 
or that are deprived of their just rights ; for all that are in 
pain of body, or anguish of mind and spirit ; for all that are 
tempted, or in danger of failing into despair ; for all that 
are in slavery, under persecution, in prison or in poverty ; 
for all persons and places in distress by the sword, pesti- 
lence, and famine ; for all that are in their last sickness, 
that they may omit nothing that is necessary to make their 
peace with God ; for all widows d.n(^ fatherless children ; 
for all that call upon God, and have none else to help 
them ; for this land, and this Church, that the Lord may 
avert the judgments which we justly deserve ; for our 
friends, our relations, our benefactors, and for our ene- 
mies ; for all that have desired our prayers, and for the 
whole mystical Body of Christ ; beseeching the Almighty 
God, the Creator and Redeemer of all, to have mercy 
upon all whom He has made and redeemed, and to give 
unto all grace and help according to the necessities they 
labour under ; for Thy sake, O Lord Jesus, to Whom, 
with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and 
glory, dominion and power, for ever and ever. Amen. 

Adapted f'roin Bishop Wilson. 

In place of this Intercession, any of the special Inter- 
cessory prayers (pp. 124, 125, 143-163) may be used. 

Make an Act of Spiritual Communion with Christ. 

BLESSED Jesus, my Lord and my God, I praise, 
worship, and glorify Thee for Thy many mercies, 
more than I can number and far greater than I can 



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express. I am not worthy that Thou shouklest come 
under my roof, but speak the word only and my soul shall 
be healed. Come by Thy spiritual power, and strengthen 
and refresh my fainting s|:)irit. Supply all my needs, and 
grant that I may soon again go forth into the House of 
God, there to appear before Thy Presence and behold 
Thy power and glory in the Sanctuary. For Thy mercies' 
sake. Amen. 

The Lord's Prayer. Tlic (iloria in Excelsis. The 
Nunc J )imilti>. 



( 7'ht' folloivinL:; JIy))ni J)iay I'f said before Part II.) 



Sp ir it ual Co/n m it n ion . 

IORD, I cannot seek Thee In my silent worship. 
J .\t Thy Altar Throne. Let me share the F- east ; 

Yet may I receive Thee Be Thy Love the Altar, 
Friendless and alone. Be Thyself the Priest. 



Thou Who in the Garden 
All alone didst pray. 

Look upon Thy servant. 
Visit me this day. 

Where before the Altar 
Crowds adoring kneel. 

There in very Essence 
Thou dost come to heal. 

Far from Priest and Altar. 

Christ, to Thee I cry. 
Come to me in Spirit. 

Let me feel Thee nig^h. 



For that dread Reception 
Let Thy Grace be mine, 

Give me true contrition. 
Give me faith Divine. 

Though the words of pardon 
Now I may not hear. 

Yet Thine Absolution 
Lightens all my fear. 

Knit me in Communion 
With those spirits blest. 

Whom Thy Body strengthens 
In the land of Rest. 



Thus would I receive Thee. 

Friendless and alone ; 
But I long to hail Thee 

At Thine Altar Throne. 

Rev. V. S. S. Coles. 



Jfnstrnctian in iHeiritation. 



Feed on Hifn by faith with thanksgiving. 

This counsel of the Church must be diligently followed, 
if the Eucharist is to be a power in our life. In these 
days, when all the avenues of knowledge are opened out 
to us, there is a danger lest we should pursue them for 
their own sake rather than for His to Whom they all 
lead. Hence the growing necessity of the practice of 
meditation. ''No one," writes Bishop Westcott. "can 
absolve himself from the duty of spiritual thought." 
" The knowledge of truth," writes Dr. Hort, " is indispen- 
sable for the mature service of GoD ; . . . the desire 
and pursuit of truth is an essential part of a holy worship." 
This we cannot obtain without determination. " Can we 
suppose that the highest knowledge, and the highest 
knowledge alone, is to be gained wdthout effort, without 
preparation, without discipline, and by a simple act of 
memory? Is it credible that the law of our nature, which 
adds capacity to experience and joy to quest, is suddenly 
suspended when we reach the loftiest iieid of man's activ- 
ity?*' Surely not. We must then take pains to know 
God, and ''labour for that meat which endureth unto 
everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give.^' 

Meditation is the name we give to that effort of thought 
which w^e make, under the direction of the Holy Ghost, 
to know God. In outline it is simple, in experience it 
is difficult, but its fruits are worth the seeking. The 
work may be divided into three parts. 

(1) Preparation. — Realize the Presence of God. 
First say, "Thou God seest m.e." "Let the words of 
my mouth and the meditation of my heart be always 
acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my Strength and my 
Redeemer ; " then the " Ve7ti Creator.'' 

(2) Meditation.- — Action of Memory, Imagination, 
Understanding. By the Memory we bring the subject 



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lUcbitation. 



before us, by the Imagination we fill it with life, by the 
Understanding we think out its practical bearings. 

(3) Devotion. — Now follows the exercise of the affec- 
tions and will. lluDik GOD for the fresh knowledge of 
Hih love that He has given you ; ask that you may profit 
by it ; and resolve to say or do something by which it may 
be stamped uj^on your soul. 

SUciGESTluNS. 

(Adapted fyor)i a Tract, ''Meditation — What it is, and 
How to iMake it.'* 

Twenty minutes (or even fifteen) usually long enough 
for a Meditation. 

Early in morning, best time. 

Say, kneeling, the Preparation and latter portion ; i.e.. 
Thanksgiving, Prayer, and Resolution!. 

Make the rest of Meditation (i e.. Part 2) in position 
least distracting ; t'.o'., sitting. 

Let the Resolution be simple, definite, and capable of 
being carried out during the day of Meditation. 

Daily Meditation is best ; but at least on Sunday, 
Wednesday, and Friday. 

Colloquies or short prayers and ejaculations to GOD, 
and addresses to your own soul, interspersed throughout 
Meditation, are helpful. 

Best subjects for Meditation : Christ's Life and Plis 
Parables and His Dealings with individuals. 

Helpful Books. — A. G. Mortimer : Helps to Medita- 
tion. Carter : Meditations on the Suffering, Glorified 
and Hidden Life. Goulburn : An Introduction to the 
Devotional Study of the Holy Scriptures. Eugene 
Stock : Lessons on the Life of our Lord. Luckock : 
Footprints of the Son of Man, as traced by S. Mark. 
Wilkinson : Instructions in the Devotional Life. T. T. 
Carter : The Devout Christian's Help to Meditation 
on the Life of our Lord. 



ADVENT, 



I. SUNDAY. For grace to 
prepare aright for Christ'' s Ad- 
vent. — Give us grace that we 
may cast away the works of 
darkness and put upon us the 
armour of light . . . that in 
the last day when He shall come 
to judge, we may rise to the life 
immortal. 

II. SUNDAY. Thatwe^nay 
quicken our hope of His coming 
by devotion to the Script^ires. — 
Grant that we may in such wise 
hear, read, mark, learn, and in- 
wardly digest them, that . . . 
we may embrace and ever hold 
fast the blessed hope of ever- 
lasting life. 

III. SUNDAY. For a faith- 
ful ministry to prepare His 
coming.~Gra.nt that the minis- 
ters and stewards of Thy mys- 
teries may prepare and make 
ready Thy way, by turning the 
hearts of the disobedient to the 
wisdom of the just. 

I V . S U N D A Y . For His pres- 
ent coining. — O Lord, raise up, 
we pray Thee, Thy power, and 
come among us, and with great 
might succour us. 



Ep.— How to prepare. 
Gosp.— The Preparation of 
Christ's cleansing. 



Ep. — The Scriptures were 
written to excite hope. 

Gosp. — Christ proclaims the 
eternity of His holy Word. 



E p. — Fidelity the essential 
characteristic of the minister of 
Christ. 

Gosp.— Christ praises the 
faithful minister. 



Ep.— The effect of the sense 
of Christ's nearness. 

Gosp. — Christ's coming not 
recognized by the unbelieving. 



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CH RISTMAS. 



CHRISTMAS DAY. For 
daily reneival iy the Holy Ghost. 
—Grant that wc bcinj.,'- rej^^cner- 
ate, and made Thy children by 
adoption and grace, may daily 
be renewed by Thy Holy Spirit. 

S S T E P H E N . Forth e fa ith 
ntiii charity of S. Stephen. — 
Grant that in all our sufferings 
. , . we may steadfastly look 
up to Heaven; . . . and. being 
tilled with the Holy Ghost, may 
learn to love and bless our per- 
secutors. 

S. JOHN. For knoiv ledge 
and light for the Ch urch .-- QvlSX. 
Thy bright beams of light upon 
Thy Church, that it . . . may 
so walk in the light of Thy 
truth, that it may at length at- 
tain to the light of everlasting 
life. 

THE INNOCENTS' DAY. 

For cJiildlike innoccncy. — Mor- 
tify and kill all vices in us. and so 
strengthen us by Thy grace, that 
by the innocency of our lives, 
and constancy of our faith even 
unto death, we may glorify Thy 
holy Name. 

SUNDAY AFTER 
CHRISTMAS. For daily re- 
7ieroal by the Holy Ghost.— GxdXvX. 
that we . . . may be daily 
renewed by the Holy Ghost. 

THE CIRCUMCISION OF 
CHRIST. For true spiritual 
Circ7<mcisio7i. — Grant us the 
true circumcision of the Spirit, 
that we may in all things obey 
Thy blessed will. 



I Ep. Christ the Brightness of 
the glory of God and the express 
Image of His Substance. 

Gosp. The Incarnation the 
source of Grace and Truth. 

\ Ep. The Incarnation the 
source of strength in suffering. 

Gosp. The Word Incarnate 
ultimately conquers the hostility 
of the world. 



Ep. - The Incarnation the 
source of light and fellowship. 

Gosp.- S.John, the witness in 
life and doctrine to the Incarna- 
tion. 

i 



I Ep.— The heavenly blessed- 
' ness and glory of the Innocent. 
Gosp. The Incarnation alone 
illuminates the Mystery of un- 
deserved suffering. 



I Ep.— The fruits of the Incar- 
nation realized personally by the 
work of the Holy Ghost. 

I Gosp.— The Incarnation ef- 
fected by the operation of the 
Holy Ghost. 

Ep. —Faith and self-sacrifice 
the spirit of the true circum- 

! cision. 

I Gosp. — Jesus teaches us obe- 
I dience to God's will in all things. 



CHRISTMAS. 

Characteristic blessings of the Incarnation, to be remembered at 
the recitation of the Special Preface during- the Octave. 

PRAISE GOD, 

1. For the fact of the Incarnation. 

2. For the courage and endurance It has given Martyrs. 

3. For the wisdom It has given students. 

4. For the light It has thrown on undeserved suffering. 

5. For the inconceivable dignity It has brought man. 

6. For Its revelation of God. 

7. For Its manifestation of man. 

8. For all that is wrapped up in the Holy Name. 

MEDITATION. 

Scripture.— Gen. iii. 15: Isa. ix. 1-8, vii. 10-16; Jer. xxiii. 5; 
Micah V. 1-3 ; S. Matt. i. 18-25 ; S. Luke i. 26-38, 39-56; S. John i. 
1-14 ; Gal. iv. 4 ; Phil. ii. 5-11 ; Heb. ii. 14, 16 ; i S. John 1. 1-4. 

Helps.— LiDDOx : Christmas in S. Paul's; The Magnificat. R, 
W. Church : The Gifts of Civilization. Bright : The Incarna- 
tion. Gore: The Incarnation of the Son of God. Wilberforce : 
The Doctrine of the Incarnation. Westcott : Christus Consum- 
mator. Sadler : Emmanuel. 



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EPIPHAXY. 



THE FESTIVAL. That 7ve \ 
may attain to the Beatific Vis- I 
ion.- Grant that after this life 
we may have the fruition of Thy 
glorious Godhead. 

I. SUNDAY. For wisdom 
and stft fit^th. -GrssiX. that ue 
may both j)crceivc and know 
what thmj^-s we ouf^ht to do. and 
have ^^race and power faithfully 
to fulfil the same. 

II. SUNDAY. — peace.— 
Mercifully hear the supplica- 
tions of '\\\\ people, and grant 
us Thy peace all trie days of our 
life. 

III. SUNDAY. Fcr the pro- 
tection of God's Right Hand.— 
Mercifully look upon our in- 
firmities, and stretch forth Thy 
right hand to help and defend 
us. 

IV. SUNDAY. For strength 
and supt>ort. ~GTa.nt us such 
strength and protection as may 
support us in all dangers and 
carr>- us through all tempta- 
tions. 

V. SUNDAY. That the 
Church may be kept in true 
religion.— K^ep Thy Church 
. . . continually m Thy true 
religion. 

VI. SUNDAY. For purity. 
— Grant that we may purify 
ourselves, even as He' is pure, 
that when Ke shall appear again 
we may be made like unto Him 
in His eternal and glorious j 
kingdom. ' 



Ep.— Our access to the Father 
only through faith in Jesus. 

Gosp. Faith leads at last to 
the presence of God. 

Ep.- Consecration gives true 
insight into God's will. 

Gosp —Christ teaches us how 
to do God's will in the sanc- 
tuary and in the home. 

Ep —The duty of each Chris- 
tian to minister to the peace of 
the Church. 

Gosp.- Christ changes tem- 
porary anxiety into peace, joy, 
and gladness. 

Ep. — Our protection and vin- 
dication to be left in God's 
hands. 

Gosp.— The hand of Christ 
stretched forth to meet the faith 
of man. 

Ep. The State, God's min- 
ister for protection, and our 
duty towards it. 

Gosp. — Christ's presence 
gives protection in the storm 
and deliverance in spiritual 
darkness. 

Ep.- VV^hat true religion is. 

Gosp. — God promises the 
Church protection but not com- 
plete purity. 

Ep.— The hope of seeing 
Christ the inspiration of purity. 

Gosp. — The coming of Christ 
sudden and unexpected. 



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PREPARATION FOR LENT. 



SEPTUAGESIMA. That 
God''s discipline may be effective 
in freeing us from sin. — Fa- 
vourably hear the prayers of 
Thy people, that we who are 
justly punished . . . may be 
mercifully delivered by Thy 
goodness. 

SEXAGESIMA. That hav- 
ing no trust in ourselves we may 
realize God's defe7tce. — Merci- 
fully grant that by Thy power 
we may be defended against all 
adversity. 

QUINQUAGESIMA. For 
love. — Send Thy Holy Ghost 
and pour into our hearts that 
most excellent gift of charity. 



Ep.— The necessity of self- 
imposed discipline. 

Gosp.— Spiritual discipline in 
itself has no merit. 



E p. —Even the labours and 
toils of S. Paul afford no ground 
for self-trust. 

Gosp.— All is of God save our 
failures. 

E p.— What love is. 

Gosp.— Its manifestation in 

Jesus. 



MEDITATION. 

Scripture.- Psalms vi., xxxii., xxxviii., li., cii., cxxx., cxliii. ; 
Isa. i. 16, 17 ; Jer. iv. i, 3, 4, 14 ; S. Luke xv. ; S. Matt. v. 4 ; S.' 
Luke xviii. 13, 14; Acts iii. 19-26 ; S. Jas. iv. 8, 9, 10. 

Helps.— Thomas a Kempis : The Imitation of Christ. S. Fran- 
cis DE Sales : The Devout Life. Scupoli : Spiritual Combat. 
Wilkinson : Lent Lectures. Goulburn : Thoughts on Personal 
Religion ; Pursuit of Holiness. Body : The School of Calvary ; 
The Life of Justification ; The Life of Temptation. T. T. 
Carter : The Imitation of our Lord Jesus Christ. Paget : 
The Spirit of Discipline. Jukes : The Law and the Offerings. 
LiDDON : Passiontide Sermons. Westcott : The Victory of the 
Cross. MiLMAN : The Love of the Atonement. Huntington : 
Helps to a Holy Lent ; Forty Days with the Master. Ki? : The 
Lenten Fast. 



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LENT. 



ASH WEDNESDAY. For 

contrition. — Create and make 
in us new and contrite hearts, | 
that we . . . may obtain 
perfect remission and forgive- 
ness. 

I. SUNDAY. For the power 
of self-discipline. — Give us 
grace to use such abstinence 
that . . . we may ever obey 
Thy godly motions in righteous- j 
ness and true holiness. 

II. SUNDAY. For protection 
to body and soul.— Keep us both^ 
outwardly in our bodies, and 
inwardly in our souls. 

III. SUNDAY. For God's 
compassion and help. — Look 
upon the hearty desires . . . 
and stretch forth the right hand 
of Thy Majesty. 

IV. SUNDAY. For refresh- 
ment. —Gvdint that ... by 
the comfort of Thy grace we 
may mercifully be relieved. 

V. SUNDAY. For our gov- 
ernment and preservation in 
body and soul .—\^oo)s. Upon Thy 
people, that . . . they may 
be governed and preserved ever- 
more both in body and soul. 



Ep.— The need of humiliation 
and fasting for the Church. 

Gosp. — Private humiliation 
and fasting expected and regu- 
lated by the Lord. 

Ep, — Fasting one of the 
proofs of Apostolic Service. 

Gosp.— The example of the 
Lord. 



Ep. — God wills our sanctifi- 
cation in the body as well as in 
the soul. 

Gosp.— Faith in Jesus casts 
out the devil of impurity. 

Ep.— What our hearty desires 
ought to be. 

Gosp. — The power of the 
" Finger of God." 

E p. —Refreshing comfort of 
the Gospel contrasted with the 
stern bondage of the law. 

Gosp.— Christ the Author and 
Giver of all refreshment. 

Ep.— The price of the redemp- 
tion of our bodies and souls. 

Gosp.— To keep Christ's say 
ings is to be preserved from 
death. 



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HOLY WEEK. 



PALM SUNDAY. For pa- I Ep.— The Example of Christ's 

Hence and humility in sujfer- \ great humility. 

Grant that we may follow I Gosp.— The Passion of the 
the example of His Patience. I true Messiah and Priest. 
MONDAY. Ep.— The Isolation and Holy Zeal of the Re- 
deemer. 

Gosp.— The Passion of the Divine King. The 
incidents of human weakness bring out in 
clear relief the calm, unshaken serenity of 
the strong Son of God. 
TUESDAY. Ep.— The Determination of the Redeemer. 

Gosp.— The King enters His Eternal King-dom 
through the gate of death. 
WEDNESDAY. Ep.— The Atoning Power of the Redeemer. 

Gosp.— The Passion of the Son of Man. The 
Human Sympathy of the Divine Suf- 
ferer shown in the love of the Last 
Supper, in the care for His disciples' 
safety, in the mysterious agony, in 
the look which converted S. Peter. 
THURSDAY. Ep.— The Sacrificial Feast of the Redeemer. 

Gosp. — The Passion of the Son of Man. The 
Human Sympathy of the Divine Sufferer 
shown in the contrast between His love 
for the weeping women and the peni- 
tent robber, and the cruel hardness and 
heartless mockery of His judges and 
enemies. 



GOOD FRIDAY. That 

OUT Redeemer may see of the 
travail of His Soul in the Fajfi- 
ily of God, i?t the ministries of 
the Church, and in the conver- 
sion of the worlds and be satis- 
fled. 

EASTER EVE. That %ve 
may die., be buried, and rise 
again with Christ. — Grant that 
by continual mortifying our cor- 
rupt affections we may be buried 
with Him . . . and pass to 
our joyful resurrection. 



Ep. — The efficacy of the 
Atonement lies in the will of the 
Redeemer. 

Gosp.— The Passion of the 
Lord of Glory. 



Ep. — The victorious Re- 
deemer preaches to the spirits 
in prison. 

Gosp. --His Body rests in the 
sepulchre. 



12 



lyS (Collects^ (SpisllcSt anb ©ospels. 



EASTER. 



EASTER DAY. That the 

holy desires of Lent may he eui- 
iwdied if: lively deeds.- We be- 
seech Thee, that as Thou dost 
put into our minds ^ood desires, 
we may brinj^ the same to good 
effect. 

EASTER MONDAY 



EASTER TUESDAY. 



I. SUNDAY. For purity and \ 
true service. — Grant us so to put \ 
away the leaven of malice 

. that we may always 
serve Thee in pureness of living- 
and truth. 

II. SUNDAY. For gratitude 
for the sacrijice of Clirist and 
devotion to His exaviple. — Give 
us grace that we may always 
most thankfully receive H'is 
inestimable benefit and daily en- 
deavour ourselves to follow the 
blessed steps of His most holy 
life. 

III. SUNDAY. For a true 
conversion. — Grant that we may 
eschew those things that are 
contrary to our profession, and 
follow all such things as are 
agreeable to the same. 

IV. SUNDAY. For nn- 
luorldliness.—GvaiVii that we may 
love the thing which Thou com- 
mandest. and desire that which 
Thou dost promise. 



Ep.— The spiritual import of 
the Resurrection. 

Gosp. The fact of the Resur- 
rection discovered by faith. 



I 

Ep.— S. Peter's witness to the Resur- 
rection. 

Gosp. The Risen Lord reveals Him- 
self through thought. 
Ep. S. Paul s witness to the Resur- 
rection. 

Gosp. The Risen Lord reveals Him- 
self through outward signs 
and inward illumination. 
Ep.- Faith in the risen Christ 
the spirit of service. 

Gosp.— The power and pur- 
pose of the service of the 
Church. 

Ep.— The Example. 
Gosp. — The Sacrifice the ne- 
cessary expression of the Love 
of the Good Shepherd, 



Ep.— The evidential power 
of a life of conversion. 

Gosp.— The life of conver- 
sion implies some present sor- 
row but much joy. 

Ep. — The realization of our 

New Birth, the secret of un- 
w^orldliness. 

Gosp.— The Presence of the 

Holy Ghost, the power of un- 
worldliness. 



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179 



EASTER. 

Characteristic blessings of the Resurrection, that may be remem- 
bered at the recitation of the Special Preface during the Octave. 

THE RESURRECTION : 

1. As a new power in the moral and spiritual life of man. 

2. As an interpretation and fulfilment of the Old Testament 
Scriptures. 

3. As a revelation of the glory of the risen Body. 

4. As a revelation of that which God has prepared for them 
that love Him. 

5. As a revelation of the unity that underlies the seemingly 
trivial fragments of life. 

6. As a revelation of fellowship with the departed. 

7. As a motive for work. 

8. As a revelation of the veiled glory that enwraps the earth. 

MEDITATION. 

Scripture.— Job xiv. 12-15, xix. 25-27 ; Ps. xvi. 9--10 ; Hos. 
xiii. 14 ; S. Luke xx. 35-38 ; Rom. viii. 19, 21, 23 ; i Cor. xv. 32-58 ; 
2 Cor. v. 1-4 ; I Thess. iv. 14-17. 

Helps.— LiDDON : Easter in S. Paul's. Westcott : The Revela- 
tion of the Risen Lord ; Gospel of the Resurrection. Luckock : 
After Death ; The Intermediate State. Jukes : The New Man. 
MoBERLV : The Great Forty Days. 



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ro(;ati()ntidi: and ascknsioxtidk. 



Ep. -The folly of relif^ious 
thoupfht without action. 

Gosp. —The omnipotence of 
prayer. 



For a blessing on the fruits of the 



ROGATION SUNDAY. 
J'or inspiration in thoui^ht and 
action.— Grant that by Thy holy* 
inspiration we may think those 
things that be pood, and by Thy 
merciful guiding may perform 
the same. 

ROGATION MONDAY 
earth. 

ROGATION TUESDAY, /u^r a blessing on the work a tnongst 
the treasures of the sea and of the mines. 

ROGATION WEDNESDAY. For a blessing on commercial 
enterprise. 

I Ep.— The expectation of 
Christ's second coming pre- 
vents idle dreaming. 

Gosp.— The Ascension and 
Christ's abiding presence with 
the Church. 
Ep.— The glory of God the 



THE ASCENSION-DAY. 

Fo7' high thinking and living. — 
Grant that we may in heart and 
mind thither ascend, and with 
Him continually dwell. 

SUNDAY AFTER AS- 



CENSION DAY. For the gift object of the gifts of God. 



of the Holy Ghost to uplift us 
'.vhere Christ is.—^end to us 
Thy Holy Ghost to comfort 
us and to exalt us unto the same 
place whither our Saviour 
Christ is gone. 



Gosp.- 
lifts u 
Christ. 



-The Holy Ghost up- 
by His testimony to 



illebitation. 



i8i 



ASCENSIONTIDE. 

Characteristic blessings of the Ascension, that may be remem- 
bered at the recitation of the Special Preface during the Octave. 

THE ASCENSION : 

1. As a revelation of the triumphs reserved for Humanity. 

2. As a guarantee of the many abiding places now being pre- 
pared for us. 

3. As an assurance of our Lord's High Priestly Work in our 
behalf. 

4. As a revelation of our Lord as King of Kings and Lord of 
Lords. 

5. As an assurance of His never-ceasing action upon the world 
through the Church. 

6. As a witness to His perpetual presence with the Church. 

7. As a glorification of Him Who for our sakes was obedient to 
death upon the Cross. 

8. As a witness to His eternal benediction of the Church in the 
gifts bestowed upon it. 

MEDITATION. 

Scripture.— Ps. xxiv. ; Ps. Ixviii. 18-20; St. John xiv. 2, 12, 28 ; 
Acts u. 33-36 ; Acts vii. 55-56 ; Heb. ii. 9 ; Heb. ix. 12, 24 ; xii. 2. 

Helps.— MiLLiGAN : The Ascension and Heavenly Priesthood 
of our Lord. Wilberforce : The Doctrine of the Incarnation, 
chapters ix., x.,xi., xii. Berdmore Compton : The Catholic Sac- 
rifice. Sadler : The One Offering. 



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WHITSUNTIDE AND EMBER WEEK. 



WHITSUNDAY. —7^ a\ 

right judgment in all things and 
spiritual joy— Grant us by the 
same Spirit to have a right 
judgment in all things, and ever- 
more to rejoice in His holy- 
comfort. 

MONDAY IN WHITSUN 
WEEK. 



TUESDAY IN WHITSUN 
WEEK. 



Ep.— The Descent of the Holy 
Ghost on the Church. 

Gosp. — The work of the Holy 
Ghost. 



Ep.— The Descent of the Holy 
Ghost on the Gentiles, 

Gosp.— Peace, the fruit of the 
Holy Ghost. 

Ep. — The Descent of the Holy 
Ghost on the confirmed. 

Gosp. — Life and the Life- 
Giver the gift of the Risen Lord. 
EMBER DAY (WEDNESDAY). —i^^^r grace to the Bishops 
that they may faithfully and wisely make choice of fit persons to 
serve in the Sacred Ministry. 

EMBER DAY (FRIDAY). — For grace, tritth, and innocency 
of life for those to be ordained to the Diaconate. 

^MBER DAY i^^'^Xi'R.TiKY).— For grace and heavenly bene- 
diction for those to be ordained to the Priesthood, 



itlebitation. 



183 



WHITSUNTIDE. 

Characteristic blessings of the Holy Ghost, that may be remem- 
bered at the recitation of the Special Preface during Whitsun- 
Week. 

PRAISE TO THE HOLY GHOST: 

1. For His work in creation— nature, natural gifts, etc. 

2. For His work in Providence— inspiring the political and 
social worlds ; shaping history. 

3. For His work in the Church— forming, maintaining, and 
perfecting. 

4. For His work in the missionary enterprises of the Church- 
giving help in divers languages, boldness and zeal in preaching. 

5. For His work as the Regenerator of the individual soul. 

6. For His work as the Renewer of the individual soul. 

7. For His work as the Perfecter of the individual soul. 

Scripture.— Ps. civ. ; Isa. xliv. 3. 4 ; Joel ii. 28. 29 ; S. John vii. 
38, 39 ; S. John xiv. 16, 17 ; S. John xvi. 7, 8 ; Acts viii. 5-17 ; Acts 
xix. 1-7 ; Acts ii. 1-13 ; Acts x. 44-47 ; S. John iii. 1-13. 

Helps. — Bishop Webb: The Presence and Office of the Holy 
Spirit. HuTCHiNGS : The Person and Work of the Holy Ghost. 
MouLE : Veni Creator. Hare : Mission of the Comforter. Ar- 
thur • The Tongue of Fire. Ewer : The Operation of the Holy 
Spirit. Scott Holland : Creed and Character. Gore : The Mis- 
sion of the Church. Goulburn : The Holy Catholic Church. 



TRINITY. 



TRINITY SUNDAY. For 

steadfastness in the Christian 
Faith and defence against all 
Aeresjf^—Keep us steadfast in 
this faith, and defend us from all 
adversities. 

I. SUNDAY. For the help of 
God^s grace to keep the command- 
ments.— Gr2S)X us the help of 
Thy grace, that in keeping of 
Thy commandments we may 
please Thee in will and deed. 

II. SUN DAY . For reverence 
and love. — Keep us under the 
protection of Thy good Provi- 
dence, and make us to have a 
perpetual fear and love of Thy 
Holy Name. 

III. SUNDAY.. For protec- 
tion and consolation in dangers 
and adversities. — Grant that we 
. . . by Thy mighty aid may 
be defended and comforted in 
all dangers and adversities. 

IV. SUNDAY. For God's 
abundant mercy that we attain 
Eternal Life. — Grant that we 
may so pass through things 
temporal that we finally lose not 
things eternal. 



Ep. — Revelation of the Holi- 
ness and Majesty of the Triune 
God. 

Gosp.— The need of regenera- 
tion to understand the heavenly 
mysteries. 

Ep. — God's love to us the 
motive of obedience to the new 
commandment. 

Gosp.— God's judgment on 
those who disobey the new com- 
mandment. 

Ep.— The love of God learnt 
by the love of man. 

Gosp. — God's judgment on 
those who have no fear of His 
Holy Name. 

Ep. — Dangers and adversi- 
ties necessary for our spiritual 
growth. 

Gosp. — Two illustrations of 
the mighty aid and tender sym- 
pathy of God. 

Ep.— The glory of things eter- 
nal. 

Gosp. — The sense of God's 
mercy should lead us to be mer- 
ciful. 



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TRINITY. 



V. SUNDAY. That political 
history be so ordered as to secure 
the quiet and joyful service of 
Chris fs Church.— Gr2int that the 
course of this world may be so 
peaceably ordered . . . that 
Thy Church may joyfully serve 
Thee in all godly quietness. 

VI. SUNDAY. For the love 
of God. — Pour into our hearts 
such love toward Thee, that we, 
loving: Thee above all things, 
may obtain Thy promises. 

VII. SUNDAY. For self co7t- 
secration.—Gra.ft in our hearts 
the love of Thy name, increase 
in us true religion, nourish us 
with all goodness, and of Thy 
great mercy keep us in the same. 

VIII. SUNDAY. For the 
blessing of God'' s care a7id prov- 
idence.—^^ beseech Thee to put 
away from us all hurtful things 
and to give us those things which 
be profitable for us. 

IX. SUNDAY. For power 
to think and act rightly. — Grant 
us, we beseech Thee, the spirit 
to think and do always such 
things as be rightful. 

X. SUNDAY. For grace to 
pray acceptably . — That Thy ser- 
vants may obtain their petitions, 
make them to ask such things as 
shall please Thee. 



Ep.— Love the secret of godly 
quietness. 

G o s p . — The Presence of 
Christ the secret of joyful ser- 
vice. 



Ep. — The love of God compels 
the crucifixion of the flesh. 

Gosp.— The love of God im- 
possible without the love of our 
brother. 

Ep.— The reasonableness of 
self -consecration. 

Gosp.— Self-consecration de- 
pends upon the Bread of Life. 



Ep.— Suffering not inconsis- 
tent with God's fatherly care. 

Gosp.— The care of Christ 
promised to all those who try to 
do the Father's will. 

Ep.— The judgments which 
follow sinful thought and action . 

Gosp.— The eternal blessings 
of right thought and ready ac- 
tion. 

Ep.— The Holy Ghost the 
Source of all devotion. 

Gosp.— Our destiny to be 
houses of prayer. 



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TRINITY. 



XI. SUNDAY. For i:>acc 
that 1UC may obtain. yiQXZX- 
fully ^rant unto us such a meas- 
ure of Thy grace, that we may 
obtain Thy g^ra^ious promises 
and be made partakers of Thy 
heavenly treasure. 

XII. SUNDAY. That Cod's 
injl >:itc ))u-rcy jnay absolve and 
bless us. Pour down upon us 
the abundance of Thy mercy, 
forpriving^ us, and givingus those 
good things which we are not 
worthy to ask. 

XIII. SUNDAY. For the 
spirit of faith/illness in the 
service of -Grant that we 
may so faithfully serve Thee 
in this life that we fail not 
finally to attain Thy heavenly 
promises. 

XIV. SUNDAY. For the in- 
crease of the Christiajt virtices 
and the love of God's will. — 
Grant us the increase of faith, 
hope and charity, and make us to 
love that which Thou dost com- 
mand. 

XV. SUNDAY. For pro- 
tection and guidance for the 
Chtirch. — Keep Thy Church, 
with Thy perpetual mercy. 



Ep.— The power of grace as 
seen in S. Paul. 

Gosp. — Humility the virtue 
that attracts grace. 



Ep. — Mercy the essential 
characteristic of the New Cove- 
nant. 

Gosp. The Divine mercy il- 
lustrated. 



Ep.— Freedom the spirit of 
service. 

Gosp.— The law and measure 
of service. 



Ep.— The Christian virtues, 
the fruit of the Spirit's working. 

Gosp. — Faithful gratitude 
alone preserves the blessings of 
Christ. 



Ep.— An example of peril to 
which the Church was exposed. 

Gosp. — Protection and care 
promised to the faithful. 



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TRINITY. 



XVI. SUNDAY. For the \ 

^tirification aiid defence of the 
Chtcrch. — l^Qt Thy continual 
pity cleanse and defend Thy 
Church, and preserve it ever- 
more by Thy help and g-oodness. 

XVII. SUNDAY. For grace 
to be ceaselessly intent on good 
works. — We pray Thee that 
Thy grace may ahvays prevent 
and follow us, and make us con- 
tinually to be given to all good 
works. 

XVIII. SUNDAY. For 

grace to withstand te^nptation 
and follow the divine life. — 
Grant (us) grace to withstand 
the temptations of the world, 
the flesh, and the devil, and 
with pure hearts and minds to 
follow Thee the only God. 

XIX. SUNDAY. That by 
obedience to the Holy Ghost we 
may please God. — Grant that 
Thy Holy Spirit may in all 
things direct and rule our 
hearts. 

XX. SUNDAY. For cheer- \ 
ful readiness.— Gra.nt that we, ; 
being ready, . . . may cheer- I 
fully accomplish those things ' 
which Thou commandest. \ 



Ep.— S. Paul's prayer for the 
Church. 

Gosp.— Christ absolves and 
delivers the Church from the 
death of sin. 

Ep.— The spirit and power in 
which good works are to be 
done. 

Gosp.— Christ gives power to 
the morally impotent, and warns 
against pride which may spoil a 
man's best deeds. 

Ep. — Grace comes by Jesus 
Christ. 

Gosp. — The divine life 
summed up in Love. 



Ep.— Sin,a grief to the Holy 
Spirit of God. 

Gosp.— In the power of the 
Holy Ghost Christ forgives and 
strengthens. 

Ep.— Christian cheerfulness 
its source and expression. 

Gosp. — Joyous cheerfulness 
the festal garment of those who 
would be present at the mar- 
riage supper of the Lamb. 



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TRINITY. 



XXI. SUNDAY. For pardon 
and peace. — Grant ... to 
Thy faithful people pardon and 
peace, that they may be cleansed 
from all their sins, and serve 
Thee with a quiet mind. 

XXII. SUNDAY. That the 
Church 7nay enjoy freedom and 
be filled with the spirit of active 
service. — Keep Thy household 
the Church in continual godli- 
ness, that it may be devoutly 
given to serve Thee in good 
works. 

XXIII. SUNDAY. That the 
Chtirch''s prayer may be heard 
and answered. — Be ready to 
hear the devout prayers of Thy 
Church, and grant that those 
things which we ask faithfully 
we may obtain effectually. 

XXIV. SUNDAY. For the 
absohition of God's people. — 
Absolve Thy people from their 
offences, that we may all be de- 
livered from the bands of those 
sins which by our frailty we 
have committed. 

XXV. SUNDAY. That we 
may will to do good works., and 
so obtain our reward. — Stir up 
the wills of Thy faithful people, 
that they, bringing forth the 
fruit of good works, may be 
plenteously rewarded. 



[ Ep.— Christian activity de- 
' pends on our sense of God's 
; peace. 

Gosp.— Anxiety dispelled by 
faith in the word of Christ. 

Ep. — A model prayer for the 
Church. 

Gosp.— Freedom only main- 
tained through the spirit of 
love. 



Ep.— The realization of our 
heavenly citizenship the source 
of devotion in prayer. 

Gosp.— Unfaithful asking is 
baffled. 



Ep.— The faith, love, and 
hope of those who live under 
the power of God's absolution. 

Gosp. — Christ by His word 
not only stays the progress of 
sin but gives life to the dead. 

Ep.— Our wills stirred by the 
power of the Name of Him Who 
dwells amongst us. 

Gosp.— Our wills strength- 
ened by the Bread of Life. 



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HOLY DAYS. 



S. ANDREW (November 

30). /"or the grace of consecra- 
tion. — Grant unto us that we, 
being called by Thy Holy Word, 
may forthwith give up our- 
selves obediently to fulfil Thy 
holy commandments. 

S.THOMAS (December 21). 
For a perfect faith in fesits 
C/zr/jz'.— Grant us so perfectly to 
believe in Thy Son Jesus Christ 
that our faith may never be re- 
proved. 

CONVERSION OF S. 
PAUL (January 25). For obe- 
dience to the doctrine of S. Patil. 
— Grant, we beseech Thee, that 
we . . . may show forth our 
thankfulness by following the 
holy doctrine which he taught. 

THE PURIFICATION OF 
S. MARY THE VIRGIN (Feb- 
ruary 2). For purity-— be- 
seech Thee that as Thy only 
begotten Son was this day pre- 
sented in the temple in sub- 
stance of our flesh, so we may 
be presented unto Thee with 
pure and clean hearts. 

S. MATTHIAS (February 
24). That the Church may be 
rightly guided in the choice of 
her ministers. — Grant that Thy 
Church may be ordered and 
guided by true pastors. 



Ep.— Consecration manifested 
in the confession of Christ's 
name. 

Gosp.— The call of Jesus the 
power of consecration. 



E p. —Jesus Christ the corner- 
stone of our faith. 

Gosp. — Christ's patience with 
imperfect and dying faith. 



Ep. — The doctrine founded on 
a manifestation of the Risen 
Lord. 

Gosp. — The rewards of those 
who obey the doctrine. 



Ep. — The purification of His 
elect the object of Christ's com- 
ing. 

Gosp.— The first presentation 
of a Pure Humanity. 



Ep.— The choice to be made 
after earnest prayer. 

Gosp. — Humility and submis- 
sion to Christ the essential quali- 
fications of true pastors. 



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HOLY 

ANNUNCIATION OF 
THE VIRGIN MARY (March 
25). T/tai the Incarnation 7nay 
not fail in its purpose for tis. — 
Pour Thy grace into our hearts, 
that as we have known the In- 
carnation of Thy Son Jesus 
Christ by the message of an 
Angel, so by His Cross and Pas- 
sion we may be brought to the 
glory of His Resurrection. 

S. MARK (April 25). For 
steadfastness in the faith. — Give 
us grace that we may be estab- 
lished in the truth of Thy Holy 
Gospel. 

S. PHILIP AND S. 
JAMES (May i). The perfect 
kno%vledge of fesus. — Grant us 
so perfectly to know Thy Son 
Jesus Christ to be the Way, the 
Truth, and the Life, that . . . 
we may steadfastly walk in the 
way that leadeth to eternal life. 

S. BARNABAS (June u). 
For an outpouring- of spiritual 
gifts and grace to use them. — 
Leave us not, we beseech Thee, 
destitute of Thy manifold gifts, 
nor yet of grace to use them 
always to Thy honour and glory. 



DAYS. 

\ Ep.— The Prophecy of the 
Incarnation. 

Gosp. — The record of the 
Incarnation. 



E p. —Exhortation to stead- 
fastness. 

Gosp. — Abiding in Christ and 
keeping the commandments ; 
the life of steadfastness. 

Ep. — The wisdom of Christ 
revealed to the man of faithful 
prayer. 

Gosp. — How the Lord met S. 
Philip's desire for knowledge. 



Ep.— The singular gifts of S. 
Barnabas. 

Gosp. — The gifts of Christ are 
promised to His elect, and given 
to those who ask. 



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HOLY 

S.JOHN BAPTIST'S DAY 

(June 24). For grace to follow 
the Baptist's life and teaching. — 
Make us so to follow his doctrine 
and holy life, that we may truly 
repent, constantly speak the 
truth, boldly rebuke vice, and 
patiently suffer for the truth's 
sake. 

S. PETER (June 29). For 
faithful dilige7ice on the part 
of the clergy and obedience on 
the part of the people. — Make, 
we beseech Thee, all Bishops 
and Pastors diligently to preach 
Thy Holy Word, and the people 
obediently to follow the same. 

S. JAMES (July 25). For 
prompt obedience. — Grant that 
we, forsaking" all worldly and 
carnal affections, may be ever- 
more ready to follow Thy holy 
commandments. 

TRANSFIGURATION 
(August 6). That we may at- 
tain to the Beatific Vision. — 
Grant that we, being delivered 
from the disquietude of this 
world, may be permitted to be- 
hold the King in His Beauty. 



DAYS. 

Ep. — The work of the Baptist. 

Gosp.— The birth of the Bap- 
tist, and the expectations it 
aroused. 



Ep. — Christ delivers those 
who faithfully proclaim His 
Word. 

Gosp. — Christ praises and 
blesses him who confesses His 
Holy Name. 



Ep. — The obedience of S. 
James, even to death. 

Gosp. — The high rewards of 
courageous obedience. 

Ep.— The majesty of Christ 
revealed in the Transfiguration. 

Gosp. — The description of the 
Glory as it was seen. 



192 QloUects, (BpiBiicB^ arib ©ospels. 



HOLY DAYS. 



S. BARTHOLOMEW 

(August 24). T/iat the Church 
may be zealous for the Word 0/ 
God. — Grant, we beseech Thee, 
unto Thy Church to love that 
Word which he believed, and 
both to preach and receive the 
same. 

S. MATTHEW (September 
21). For grace to forsake cove- 
tousness and to follow Christ. — 
Grant us to forsake all covetous 
desires and to follow . . 
Jesus Christ. 

S. MICHAEL AND ALL 
ANGELS (September 29). For 
the help a7id protection of the 
an£-e Is. — Gr sent, as Thy holy 
Angels always do Thee service 
in Heaven, so by Thy appoint- 
ment they may succour and de- 
fend us on earth . 

S. LUKE THE EVAN- 
GELIST (October 18). That 
S. Luke''s teaching may be effec- 
tive in our complete restoration. 
—May it please Thee that by 
the wholesome medicines of the 
doctrine, ... all the dis- 
eases of our souls may be 
healed. 



Ep.— The first eflects of the 
Word of God. 

Gosp.— The reward of those 
who preach the Word. 



Ep.— The blinding power of 
covetousness. 

Gosp. — How S. Matthew 
broke away from it. 

Ep.— The angels' service for 
God. 

Gosp.— The angels' service 
for man. 



Ep.— The steadfast constancy 
of S. Luke. 

Gosp.— Prayer the power 
which makes evangelists. 



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HOLY DAYS. 



S. SIMON AND S. JUDE 

(October 28). For unity of the 
faith.— GrdiTiX, us to be joined 
together in unity of spirit by 
their doctrine, that we may be 
made an holy temple acceptable 
unto Thee. 

ALL SAINTS' DAY (No- 
vember i). For grace to imitate 
the Saints.— GrdiVit us grace so 
to follow Thy blessed Saints in 
all virtuous and godly living 
that we may come to those un- 
speakable joys which Thou hast 
prepared. 



Ep.— The preciousness of the 
faith. 

Gosp.— The need of unity in 
the face of a hostile world. 



Ep.— God's protection of the 
Saints. 

Gosp. — Character and re- 
ward of the Saints. 



SOME HELPS TO DEVOTION AND PRACTICE. 

Prayer. — ^Wilkinson : Instructions in the Devotional Life. 
HuTCHiNGs : The Life of Prayer. Vaughan : The Prayers of 
Jesus. D. Moore : Aids to Prayer. F. E. Carter : Preparation 
for Worship. Newbolt : The Prayer Book : its Voice and Teach- 
ing. Maurice : On the Lord's Prayer. 

The Creed.— H. S. Holland : Creed and Character. Mac- 
Coll : Christianity in Relation to Science and Morals. Mason : 
The Faith of the Gospel. E. Wordsworth : Illustrations of the 
Creed. 

The Decalogue. — E.Wordsworth: The Decalogue. Dale* 
The Ten Commandments. Moberly : The Love of God. 



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